DRG 180 · Respiratory

Lung Cancer Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals

A hospital stay for cancer of the lung or airways, in patients who also have other serious health problems. Care focuses on managing symptoms such as breathing trouble, along with tests and treatment.

State average
$54,852
gross charge · DRG 180
Hospitals
16
with published pricing
Price range
$6,690 – $150,021
low to high
Lowest $6,690 Highest $150,021

Louisiana hospitals price lung cancer (Medicare DRG 180) anywhere from $6,690 to $150,021 — a $143,331 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is St. Bernard Parish Hospital in Chalmette; the most expensive is Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center (Kings Hwy) in Shreveport. The state average sits at $54,852.

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 lung cancer 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 lung cancer 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 lung cancer in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 180 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

    St. Bernard Parish Hospital

    Chalmette, LA

    Gross charge $6,690
    Cash pay $2,141
  2. 2

    Opelousas General Health System

    Opelousas, LA

    Gross charge $11,357
    Cash pay $5,678
  3. 3

    West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital

    Sulphur, LA

    Gross charge $17,034
    Cash pay $12,775
  4. 4

    Lasalle General Hospital

    Jena, LA

    Gross charge $17,292
    Cash pay $10,375
  5. 5

    Ochsner St. Mary

    Morgan City, LA

    Gross charge $29,141
    Cash pay $5,828
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    Gross charge $41,532
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    Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge

    Baton Rouge, LA

    Gross charge $43,392
    Cash pay $13,885
  8. 8

    Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics

    Lafayette, LA

    Gross charge $47,233
    Cash pay $12,281
  9. 9

    Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner

    Kenner, LA

    Gross charge $50,838
    Cash pay $14,235
  10. 10

    Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center

    Lafayette, LA

    15 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $56,683
    Cash pay $11,903
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,206
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    St. Tammany Parish Hospital

    Covington, LA

    Gross charge $57,321
    Cash pay $22,928
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    North Oaks Medical Center

    Hammond, LA

    Gross charge $63,748
    Cash pay $19,627
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    Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center

    Houma, LA

    Gross charge $84,614
    Cash pay $39,769
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    Ochsner LSU Health Monroe

    Monroe, LA

    Gross charge $89,074
    Cash pay $20,487
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    Gross charge $111,670
    Cash pay $31,268
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    Gross charge $150,021
    Cash pay $39,005
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    Natchitoches Regional Medical Center

    Natchitoches, LA

    Gross charge —
    Cash pay $15,312
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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 $8,873
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    Cash pay $21,490
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    Acadian Medical Center

    Eunice, LA

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    Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Thibodaux, LA

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    Ochsner Medical Center Acute

    New Orleans, LA

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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 Acadia General Hospital

    Crowley, 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

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    Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Ville Platte, LA

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    Christus Coushatta Health Care Center

    Coushatta, LA

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