Diabetes Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
Diabetes admitted for blood sugar that is out of control. The hospital stay involves adjusting insulin or other medicines, frequent blood sugar monitoring, and help planning day-to-day management of the condition.
State average
$17,041
gross charge · DRG 639
Hospitals
21
with published pricing
Price range
$4,072 – $33,692
low to high
Data notes for Louisiana
- The lowest published charge ($4,072 at Opelousas General Health System) is unusually low for an inpatient stay. This may reflect a data-quality issue in the hospital's MRF rather than an actual price — verify directly with the hospital before relying on it.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $4,072Cash pay $2,036 - 2
Bayou Bend Hospital
Franklin, LA
Gross charge $7,664Cash pay $5,365 - 3
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge $9,611Cash pay $3,076 - 4
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge $10,105Cash pay $7,579 - 5
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge $11,443Cash pay $3,433 - 6
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge $11,443Cash pay $3,433 - 7
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge $11,455Cash pay $2,291 - 8
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge $13,464Cash pay $6,328 - 9
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $15,470Cash pay $4,951 - 10
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge $16,040Cash pay $3,689 - 11
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $16,801Cash pay $6,721 - 12
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $17,232Cash pay $4,825 - 13
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge $17,286Cash pay $4,667 - 14
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $17,297Cash pay $3,632 - 15
Womans Hospital
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $17,474 - 16Gross charge $20,356Cash pay $5,293
- 17
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge $22,030Cash pay $9,693 - 18
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $23,945Cash pay $6,226 - 19
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $28,821Cash pay $6,629 - 20
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $32,155Cash pay $7,037 - 21Gross charge $33,692Cash pay $9,434
- 22
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $5,484 - 23Gross charge —
- 24
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 25
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 26
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 27Gross charge —
- 28
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 29
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 30
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 31
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 32
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 33
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 34
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 35
Caldwell Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Columbia, LA
Gross charge — - 36
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 37Gross charge —Cash pay $3,109
- 38Gross charge —
- 39
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $7,704 - 40
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 41
LSU Lallie Kemp Medical Center
Independence, LA
Gross charge — - 42
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 43
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 44
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 45
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge — - 46
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 47
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge — - 48
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 49
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 50
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 51
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price diabetes (Medicare DRG 639) anywhere from $4,072 to $33,692 — a $29,620 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Opelousas General Health System in Opelousas; the most expensive is Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center (St Mary Pl) in Shreveport. The state average sits at $17,041.
Gross charges are list prices, not what most patients pay. Insurance plans negotiate substantial discounts, Medicare and Medicaid pay fixed federal rates, and uninsured patients can usually qualify for a cash-pay discount. But the gross charge still works as a useful benchmark: a hospital that lists diabetes at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
You usually don't choose a hospital during an urgent diabetes admission. This page is for the planning side: patients with chronic conditions weighing their options, caregivers picking ahead of time, or employers comparing in-network facilities. Click any hospital name for its full quality profile — CMS overall star rating, mortality and readmission rates, patient-experience scores. When two nearby hospitals look similar on quality, the one with lower published charges is the safer default for routine medical admissions.
Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Louisiana hospitals missing from the list either don't perform diabetes in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 639 in their most recent MRF, or fell below our data-quality thresholds (we filter out clearly erroneous entries like $0 charges). The list refreshes as hospitals update their files.