Heart Attack Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) with complications — discharged alive.
What this hospital charge usually covers
The gross-charge number above is the hospital's facility bill for heart attack. Here's what's typically inside that price (typical inpatient stay: 3–5 days):
Included in the hospital bill
- Emergency department evaluation and cardiac workup
- Inpatient cardiac monitoring (often in a coronary care unit)
- Diagnostic catheterization and any required stenting
- Inpatient medications and routine labs during admission
Usually billed separately
- Cardiologist, ED physician, and any interventional specialist professional fees
- Ambulance transport
- Outpatient cardiac rehab and follow-up visits after discharge
- Long-term medications (antiplatelets, statins, beta-blockers)
Quality signals to check before picking a hospital
Price alone won't tell you which hospital does heart attack best. These are the CMS quality measures that matter most for this specific procedure. Click any hospital below for its full profile, then look for these:
Heart-Attack Mortality (30-day)
The single most important quality signal — how often patients survive 30 days after a heart attack at this hospital.
Time to Fibrinolysis (STEMI)
For ST-elevation heart attacks treated with clot-busting drugs, every minute counts. Tracks median minutes from arrival to treatment.
Heart-Attack Readmissions
Reflects discharge planning, medication reconciliation, and outpatient cardiology handoff.
When the cheapest hospital may not be the best fit
The list below sorts by price. For heart attack, the lowest price isn't automatically the best fit — these are situations where it's worth weighing additional factors against price. None of the below is medical advice; talk to your doctor about what applies to your specific situation.
- Heart-attack admissions aren't shoppable in real time — in an emergency, the hospital that can get a patient to a cath lab fastest is typically the right call regardless of price.
- This page is more useful after discharge to evaluate where care was delivered, or ahead of time for chronic-condition planning.
Questions to ask your hospital or insurer
The gross charge is the starting point. These are the procedure-specific questions to ask before you commit:
- During an active heart attack: skip this list and call 911 — go to the nearest hospital with a cardiac cath lab.
- After discharge: was every physician who treated me in-network? (ED, cardiologist, interventionalist, hospitalist often bill separately.)
- What outpatient cardiac rehab program is recommended? Is it covered?
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $5,990Cash pay $2,995 - 2
Lasalle General Hospital
Jena, LA
Gross charge $8,154Cash pay $4,892 - 3
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge $9,496Cash pay $4,178 - 4
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge $9,531Cash pay $1,906 - 5
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge $12,976Cash pay $6,099 - 6
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge $16,706Cash pay $3,842 - 7
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge $18,529Cash pay $5,929 - 8
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge $18,774Cash pay $5,069 - 9
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge $24,038Cash pay $7,211Medicare pays (avg) $5,724 - 10
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge $24,038Cash pay $7,211 - 11
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge $25,747Cash pay $19,310 - 12
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge $26,569Cash pay $11,956 - 13
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $28,791Cash pay $9,213 - 14
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $32,962Cash pay $13,185Medicare pays (avg) $4,783 - 15
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $34,957Cash pay $9,788Medicare pays (avg) $6,140 - 16
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $42,840Cash pay $8,996Medicare pays (avg) $4,701 - 17
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $46,716Cash pay $10,745 - 18
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $54,576Cash pay $14,190 - 19Gross charge $65,579Cash pay $17,051
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North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $68,270Cash pay $10,352Medicare pays (avg) $4,986 - 21
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $8,043 - 22Gross charge —
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Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,897 - 24
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 25
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 26Gross charge —
- 27
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 28
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 29
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 30
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 31
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 32
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,337 - 33
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 34
Caldwell Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Columbia, LA
Gross charge — - 35
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 36Gross charge —Cash pay $4,746
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- 38
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $11,334 - 39
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 40
LSU Lallie Kemp Medical Center
Independence, LA
Gross charge — - 41
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 42
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 43
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 44
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge — - 45
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 46
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,750 - 47
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 48Gross charge —
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Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,133 - 50
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price heart attack (Medicare DRG 281) anywhere from $5,990 to $68,270 — a $62,280 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Opelousas General Health System in Opelousas; the most expensive is North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond. The state average sits at $28,762.
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 281 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.