Heart Attack Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) without major complications — discharged alive.
State average
$25,782
gross charge · DRG 282
Hospitals
17
with published pricing
Price range
$4,712 – $97,760
low to high
Data notes for Louisiana
- The lowest published charge ($4,712 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 $4,712Cash pay $2,356 - 2
Bayou Bend Hospital
Franklin, LA
Gross charge $4,731Cash pay $3,312 - 3
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge $6,675Cash pay $3,004 - 4
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge $7,139Cash pay $3,141 - 5
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge $8,644Cash pay $2,766 - 6
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge $10,155Cash pay $2,742 - 7
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge $13,688Cash pay $10,266 - 8
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge $14,258Cash pay $6,701 - 9
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $23,450Cash pay $7,504 - 10
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge $24,796Cash pay $4,959 - 11
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $25,823Cash pay $6,714 - 12
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $26,154Cash pay $7,323 - 13Gross charge $36,833Cash pay $9,577
- 14
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $40,786Cash pay $16,314 - 15
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $44,457Cash pay $10,225 - 16
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $48,240Cash pay $8,143 - 17
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $97,760Cash pay $20,530 - 18
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $6,326 - 19Gross charge —
- 20
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 21
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 22
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 23Gross charge —
- 24
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 25
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 26
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 27
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 28
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 29
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 30
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 31
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 32Gross charge —Cash pay $3,703
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- 34
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $8,915 - 35
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 36
LSU Lallie Kemp Medical Center
Independence, LA
Gross charge — - 37
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 38
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge — - 39
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 40
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 41
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge — - 42
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 43
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge — - 44
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge — - 45
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 46Gross charge —
- 47
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge — - 48
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,394 - 49
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price heart attack (Medicare DRG 282) anywhere from $4,712 to $97,760 — a $93,048 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Opelousas General Health System in Opelousas; the most expensive is Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center in Lafayette. The state average sits at $25,782.
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 282 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.