Joint Infection Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
A hospital stay for a bacterial infection inside a joint, such as the knee or hip, which causes severe pain and swelling. Treatment typically combines IV antibiotics with a procedure to drain or wash out the joint.
State average
$60,414
gross charge · DRG 549
Hospitals
15
with published pricing
Price range
$5,746 – $471,466
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Lasalle General Hospital
Jena, LA
Gross charge $5,746Cash pay $3,448 - 2
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $7,830Cash pay $3,915 - 3
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $12,940Cash pay $4,141 - 4
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge $14,338Cash pay $4,588 - 5
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge $17,914Cash pay $8,420 - 6
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $20,727Cash pay $5,389 - 7
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $21,851Cash pay $6,118 - 8
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge $22,072Cash pay $5,959 - 9Gross charge $32,572Cash pay $8,469
- 10
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $37,024Cash pay $14,810 - 11
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge $39,229Cash pay $11,769 - 12
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge $39,229Cash pay $11,769 - 13
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $62,129Cash pay $14,290 - 14
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $101,146Cash pay $13,532 - 15Gross charge $471,466Cash pay $132,010
- 16
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $10,626 - 17Gross charge —
- 18
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 19
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 20
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 21Gross charge —
- 22
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 23
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 24
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 25
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 26
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 27
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 28
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 29
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 30Gross charge —Cash pay $6,374
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- 32
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $14,817 - 33
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 34
LSU Lallie Kemp Medical Center
Independence, LA
Gross charge — - 35
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 36
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 37
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge — - 38
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge — - 39
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 40
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge — - 41
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge — - 42
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 43
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge — - 44
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge — - 45
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 46
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 47
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 48
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price joint infection (Medicare DRG 549) anywhere from $5,746 to $471,466 — a $465,719 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Lasalle General Hospital in Jena; the most expensive is Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center (St Mary Pl) in Shreveport. The state average sits at $60,414.
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 joint infection at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling joint infection 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 joint infection in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 549 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.