DRG 304 · Cardiovascular

High Blood Pressure Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals

Blood pressure high enough to require inpatient treatment. Care involves medicines to lower blood pressure safely and monitoring for effects on the heart, brain, and kidneys.

State average
$33,288
gross charge · DRG 304
Hospitals
16
with published pricing
Price range
$6,517 – $91,707
low to high
Lowest $6,517 Highest $91,707

Louisiana hospitals price high blood pressure (Medicare DRG 304) anywhere from $6,517 to $91,707 — a $85,190 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Ochsner St. Anne Hospital in Raceland; the most expensive is Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center in Lafayette. The state average sits at $33,288.

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 high blood pressure 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 high blood pressure 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 high blood pressure in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 304 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
    Gross charge $6,517
    Cash pay $2,868
  2. 2

    Opelousas General Health System

    Opelousas, LA

    Gross charge $7,634
    Cash pay $3,817
  3. 3

    St. Bernard Parish Hospital

    Chalmette, LA

    Gross charge $12,311
    Cash pay $3,940
  4. 4

    West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital

    Sulphur, LA

    Gross charge $12,323
    Cash pay $9,242
  5. 5

    Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center

    Houma, LA

    Gross charge $17,337
    Cash pay $8,148
  6. 6
    Gross charge $22,551
    Cash pay $6,089
  7. 7

    St. Tammany Parish Hospital

    Covington, LA

    Gross charge $26,659
    Cash pay $10,663
  8. 8

    Ochsner Acadia General Hospital

    Crowley, LA

    Gross charge $27,401
    Cash pay $6,302
  9. 9

    Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics

    Lafayette, LA

    Gross charge $31,607
    Cash pay $8,218
  10. 10

    Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge

    Baton Rouge, LA

    Gross charge $34,493
    Cash pay $11,038
  11. 11

    Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner

    Kenner, LA

    Gross charge $34,854
    Cash pay $9,759
  12. 12

    Ochsner St. Mary

    Morgan City, LA

    Gross charge $37,348
    Cash pay $7,470
  13. 13

    Ochsner LSU Health Monroe

    Monroe, LA

    Gross charge $41,562
    Cash pay $9,559
  14. 14

    North Oaks Medical Center

    Hammond, LA

    Gross charge $62,206
    Cash pay $13,193
  15. 15
    Gross charge $66,093
    Cash pay $17,184
  16. 16

    Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center

    Lafayette, LA

    Gross charge $91,707
    Cash pay $19,259
  17. 17

    Natchitoches Regional Medical Center

    Natchitoches, LA

    Gross charge —
    Cash pay $10,122
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    Terrebonne General Medical Center - Parish

    Houma, LA

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    Rapides Regional Medical Center

    Alexandria, LA

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    Abbeville General Hospital

    Abbeville, LA

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    Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)

    Lake Charles, LA

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    Avoyelles Hospital

    Marksville, LA

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    Oakdale Community Hospital

    Oakdale, LA

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    Claiborne Memorial Medical Center

    Homer, LA

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    Minden Medical Center

    Minden, LA

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    Glenwood Regional Medical Center

    West Monroe, LA

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    Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Leesville, LA

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    Cash pay $5,595
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  33. 33
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    Cash pay $14,445
  34. 34

    Acadian Medical Center

    Eunice, LA

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    Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Thibodaux, LA

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  37. 37

    Ochsner Medical Center Acute

    New Orleans, LA

    37 Medicare stays/yr
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    Medicare pays (avg) $7,868
  38. 38
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    CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital

    Lake Charles, LA

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    Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System

    Shreveport, LA

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    Ochsner St. Martin Hospital

    Breaux Bridge, LA

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    Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)

    Alexandria, LA

    12 Medicare stays/yr
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    Medicare pays (avg) $6,752
  46. 46
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    Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Ville Platte, LA

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  48. 48

    Christus Coushatta Health Care Center

    Coushatta, LA

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