Muscle & Joint Symptoms Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
Pain or other symptoms in the muscles, bones, or joints that need hospital evaluation. The stay usually involves imaging and tests to find the cause, along with pain management.
State average
$29,522
gross charge · DRG 556
Hospitals
16
with published pricing
Price range
$5,305 – $69,001
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $5,305Cash pay $2,653 - 2
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge $8,520Cash pay $6,390 - 3
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge $8,816Cash pay $2,028 - 4
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge $10,270Cash pay $2,773 - 5
Union General Hospital
Farmerville, LA
Gross charge $11,377Cash pay $8,533 - 6
East Carroll Parish Hospital
Lake Providence, LA
Gross charge $13,046Cash pay $9,785 - 7
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $14,692Cash pay $4,702 - 8Gross charge $19,362Cash pay $5,421
- 9
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $25,997Cash pay $6,759 - 10Gross charge $28,107Cash pay $7,308
- 11
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $39,665Cash pay $11,106 - 12
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $41,941Cash pay $8,808 - 13
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $53,771Cash pay $9,169 - 14
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge $61,240Cash pay $18,372 - 15
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge $61,240Cash pay $18,372 - 16
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $69,001Cash pay $27,600 - 17
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $7,262 - 18Gross charge —
- 19
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 20
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 21
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 22Gross charge —
- 23
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 24
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 25
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 26
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 27
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 28
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 29
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 30
Caldwell Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Columbia, LA
Gross charge — - 31
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 32Gross charge —Cash pay $4,124
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- 34
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $10,039 - 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
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 39
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 40
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge — - 41
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 42
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge — - 43
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 44
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge — - 45
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge — - 46
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge — - 47
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 48
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 49
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 50
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 51
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price muscle & joint symptoms (Medicare DRG 556) anywhere from $5,305 to $69,001 — a $63,696 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Opelousas General Health System in Opelousas; the most expensive is St. Tammany Parish Hospital in Covington. The state average sits at $29,522.
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 muscle & joint symptoms at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling muscle & joint symptoms 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 muscle & joint symptoms in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 556 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.