Digestive System Surgery Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
An operation on the stomach, intestines, or other digestive organs that doesn't fall into a more specific surgical category. The stay includes surgery and a recovery period with a gradual return to eating.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge $19,816Cash pay $9,313 - 2
Womans Hospital
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $27,530 - 3
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $27,718Cash pay $13,859 - 4
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $47,307Cash pay $18,923 - 5
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $58,115Cash pay $15,110 - 6
Iberia Medical Center (Acute Care)
New Iberia, LA
Gross charge $60,798Cash pay $36,479 - 7
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $104,773Cash pay $33,527 - 8
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $125,865Cash pay $35,242 - 9
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge $151,907Cash pay $34,939 - 10
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $227,412Cash pay $49,768 - 11Gross charge $292,925Cash pay $76,160
- 12
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $328,608Cash pay $69,008 - 13
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $37,693 - 14Gross charge —
- 15
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 16
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 17
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 18Gross charge —
- 19
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 20
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 21
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 22
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 23
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 24
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 25
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 26
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 27Gross charge —Cash pay $21,970
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- 29
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $52,449 - 30
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 31
LSU Lallie Kemp Medical Center
Independence, LA
Gross charge — - 32
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 33
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge — - 34
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 35
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 36
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge — - 37
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 38
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge — - 39
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge — - 40
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 41
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge — - 42Gross charge —
- 43
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge — - 44
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge — - 45
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge — - 46
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 47
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 48
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 49
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price digestive system surgery (Medicare DRG 356) anywhere from $19,816 to $328,608 — a $308,792 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center in Houma; the most expensive is Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center in Lafayette. The state average sits at $122,731.
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 digestive system surgery 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 digestive system surgery 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 digestive system surgery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 356 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.