Healthy Newborn Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
A healthy baby's routine hospital stay after birth, including newborn exams, screening tests, and feeding support before going home.
State average
$3,762
gross charge · DRG 795
Hospitals
22
with published pricing
Price range
$1,265 – $9,556
low to high
Data notes for Louisiana
- The lowest published charge ($1,265 at West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital) 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
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge $1,265Cash pay $949 - 2
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $1,298Cash pay $649 - 3
Bayou Bend Hospital
Franklin, LA
Gross charge $2,101Cash pay $1,470 - 4
Iberia Medical Center (Acute Care)
New Iberia, LA
Gross charge $2,431Cash pay $1,459 - 5
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $3,124Cash pay $1,250 - 6
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $3,920Cash pay $862 - 7
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $3,920Cash pay $862 - 8
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $3,920Cash pay $902 - 9
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge $3,920Cash pay $902 - 10
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge $3,920Cash pay $862 - 11
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge $3,920Cash pay $902 - 12Gross charge $3,920Cash pay $902
- 13
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge $3,920Cash pay $902 - 14
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $3,920Cash pay $902 - 15
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $3,920Cash pay $902 - 16
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge $3,920Cash pay $902 - 17Gross charge $3,920Cash pay $902
- 18
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge $3,920Cash pay $862 - 19
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge $3,920Cash pay $862 - 20
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge $3,920Cash pay $902 - 21
Womans Hospital
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $4,186 - 22
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $9,556Cash pay $2,244 - 23
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $1,777 - 24Gross charge —
- 25
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 26
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 27
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge — - 28
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 29Gross charge —
- 30
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 31
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 32
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 33
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 34
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 35
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 36
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 37
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 38
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 39Gross charge —Cash pay $973
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- 41
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $2,457 - 42
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 43
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 44
LSU Lallie Kemp Medical Center
Independence, LA
Gross charge — - 45
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 46
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 47
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 48
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price healthy newborn (Medicare DRG 795) anywhere from $1,265 to $9,556 — a $8,291 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital in Sulphur; the most expensive is North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond. The state average sits at $3,762.
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 healthy newborn at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
For healthy newborn in Louisiana, the price below is each hospital's gross charge for the facility portion of delivery — your actual out-of-pocket depends on insurance, length of stay, complications, and whether the obstetrician bills separately. Click any hospital name for its full maternity profile, including CMS star rating, patient-experience scores, and (where designated) the CMS Birthing-Friendly Hospital marker — a useful signal of maternity-care quality.
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 healthy newborn in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 795 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.