DRG 280 · Cardiovascular

Heart Attack Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals

Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) with major complications — discharged alive.

State average
$59,600
gross charge · DRG 280
Hospitals
21
with published pricing
Price range
$6,912 – $171,801
low to high
Lowest $6,912 Highest $171,801

Louisiana hospitals price heart attack (Medicare DRG 280) anywhere from $6,912 to $171,801 — a $164,889 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Lasalle General Hospital in Jena; the most expensive is Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics in Lafayette. The state average sits at $59,600.

Gross charges are the hospital's list price for the facility part of your stay — the room, operating-room time, nursing, and equipment. 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 heart attack at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

If you're scheduling heart attack in Louisiana, sort the list below by price, then click each hospital name to see its quality profile — CMS overall star rating, surgical-safety measures, readmission rates, patient-experience scores. The cheapest hospital isn't always the right call. Teaching hospitals often charge more because they take complex cases, and a higher-rated community hospital may deliver equivalent outcomes for a straightforward case at a lower price. Use the price column to narrow the field; use the quality data to make the final call.

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 heart attack in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 280 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.

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Lasalle General Hospital

    Jena, LA

    Gross charge $6,912
    Cash pay $4,147
  2. 2

    Opelousas General Health System

    Opelousas, LA

    Gross charge $10,665
    Cash pay $5,333
  3. 3

    Bayou Bend Hospital

    Franklin, LA

    Gross charge $11,082
    Cash pay $7,757
  4. 4
    Gross charge $13,160
    Cash pay $5,922
  5. 5
    Gross charge $13,983
    Cash pay $6,152
  6. 6

    Ochsner Acadia General Hospital

    Crowley, LA

    Gross charge $18,864
    Cash pay $4,339
  7. 7

    Ochsner Medical Center Acute

    New Orleans, LA

    60 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $20,776
    Cash pay $6,233
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,819
  8. 8

    Ochsner St. Martin Hospital

    Breaux Bridge, LA

    Gross charge $20,776
    Cash pay $6,233
  9. 9
    Gross charge $28,154
    Cash pay $7,601
  10. 10

    Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center

    Houma, LA

    12 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $32,560
    Cash pay $15,303
    Medicare pays (avg) $14,248
  11. 11

    West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital

    Sulphur, LA

    Gross charge $33,779
    Cash pay $25,334
  12. 12

    St. Tammany Parish Hospital

    Covington, LA

    21 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $43,059
    Cash pay $17,224
    Medicare pays (avg) $13,065
  13. 13

    Ochsner St. Mary

    Morgan City, LA

    Gross charge $52,388
    Cash pay $10,478
  14. 14

    North Oaks Medical Center

    Hammond, LA

    24 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $79,221
    Cash pay $18,434
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,747
  15. 15

    St. Bernard Parish Hospital

    Chalmette, LA

    Gross charge $93,269
    Cash pay $29,846
  16. 16

    Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge

    Baton Rouge, LA

    13 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $94,541
    Cash pay $30,253
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,868
  17. 17

    Ochsner LSU Health Monroe

    Monroe, LA

    Gross charge $108,020
    Cash pay $24,845
  18. 18

    Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner

    Kenner, LA

    14 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $128,249
    Cash pay $35,910
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,424
  19. 19

    Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center (Kings Hwy)

    Shreveport, LA

    11 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $129,224
    Cash pay $33,598
    Medicare pays (avg) $16,965
  20. 20

    Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center

    Lafayette, LA

    159 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $141,112
    Cash pay $29,634
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,032
  21. 21

    Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics

    Lafayette, LA

    14 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $171,801
    Cash pay $44,668
    Medicare pays (avg) $20,207
  22. 22

    Natchitoches Regional Medical Center

    Natchitoches, LA

    Gross charge
    Cash pay $13,976
  23. 23

    Terrebonne General Medical Center - Parish

    Houma, LA

    22 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,385
  24. 24

    Rapides Regional Medical Center

    Alexandria, LA

    57 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,699
  25. 25

    Abbeville General Hospital

    Abbeville, LA

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  26. 26

    Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)

    Lake Charles, LA

    31 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,704
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  29. 29

    Avoyelles Hospital

    Marksville, LA

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    Oakdale Community Hospital

    Oakdale, LA

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  31. 31

    Claiborne Memorial Medical Center

    Homer, LA

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  32. 32

    Minden Medical Center

    Minden, LA

    12 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,718
  33. 33

    Glenwood Regional Medical Center

    West Monroe, LA

    46 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,995
  34. 34

    Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Leesville, LA

    24 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,988
  35. 35
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  36. 36
    Gross charge
    Cash pay $8,195
  37. 37
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  38. 38
    Gross charge
    Cash pay $20,182
  39. 39

    Acadian Medical Center

    Eunice, LA

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  40. 40
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  41. 41

    Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Thibodaux, LA

    26 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,222
  42. 42

    Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Ville Platte, LA

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  43. 43
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  44. 44

    Christus Coushatta Health Care Center

    Coushatta, LA

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  45. 45

    CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital

    Lake Charles, LA

    39 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $11,653
  46. 46

    Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System

    Shreveport, LA

    69 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,636
  47. 47
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  49. 49

    Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)

    Alexandria, LA

    106 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,637
  50. 50
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