Pneumonia Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for simple pneumonia and pleurisy with complications — one of the most common medical admissions.
What this hospital charge usually covers
The gross-charge number above is the hospital's facility bill for pneumonia. Here's what's typically inside that price (typical inpatient stay: 3–5 days):
Included in the hospital bill
- Inpatient room and respiratory monitoring
- IV antibiotics and oxygen therapy
- Chest imaging, blood cultures, and routine labs
- Respiratory treatments (nebulizers, etc.) during the stay
Usually billed separately
- Hospitalist and infectious-disease consultant professional fees
- Pulmonologist consultation if required
- Outpatient antibiotics after discharge
- Follow-up chest imaging
Quality signals to check before picking a hospital
Price alone won't tell you which hospital does pneumonia 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:
Pneumonia Mortality (30-day)
How often patients hospitalized for pneumonia survive 30 days. The headline pneumonia outcome.
Pneumonia Readmissions
Strong discharge planning, the right outpatient antibiotic, and follow-up reduce returns to the hospital.
Sepsis Care Bundle
Severe pneumonia can become sepsis. Hospitals with strong sepsis-bundle compliance catch and treat it early.
When the cheapest hospital may not be the best fit
The list below sorts by price. For pneumonia, 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.
- For patients with weakened immunity (chemotherapy, transplant, HIV), a hospital with infectious-disease specialists on staff may handle complex cases better.
- For severe pneumonia that may require ICU care, a hospital with a closed-staffed ICU is generally better equipped.
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:
- Will any of my physicians be out-of-network?
- What outpatient antibiotic is prescribed, and is it covered?
- When is the follow-up chest X-ray, and where will it be done?
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $5,328Cash pay $2,664Medicare pays (avg) $4,733 - 2
Lasalle General Hospital
Jena, LA
Gross charge $7,486Cash pay $4,492Medicare pays (avg) $6,148 - 3
Union General Hospital
Farmerville, LA
Gross charge $11,734Cash pay $8,800 - 4
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge $14,275Cash pay $6,709 - 5
Bayou Bend Hospital
Franklin, LA
Gross charge $15,949Cash pay $11,164 - 6
East Carroll Parish Hospital
Lake Providence, LA
Gross charge $16,354Cash pay $12,265 - 7
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge $16,498Cash pay $7,424 - 8
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge $16,709Cash pay $7,352 - 9Gross charge $16,849Cash pay $4,718
- 10
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge $17,695Cash pay $5,662 - 11
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge $23,055Cash pay $6,225 - 12
Jackson Parish Hospital
Jonesboro, LA
Gross charge $23,227 - 13
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge $23,637Cash pay $17,728 - 14
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $23,967Cash pay $6,711Medicare pays (avg) $5,620 - 15
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $24,764Cash pay $7,924Medicare pays (avg) $4,564 - 16
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge $24,881Cash pay $7,464Medicare pays (avg) $5,188 - 17
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge $24,881Cash pay $7,464 - 18
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $27,820Cash pay $11,128Medicare pays (avg) $3,847 - 19
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $28,680Cash pay $7,457 - 20
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge $35,259Cash pay $8,110Medicare pays (avg) $4,851 - 21
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge $35,394Cash pay $7,079 - 22
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $41,043Cash pay $9,440 - 23
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $51,732Cash pay $9,209Medicare pays (avg) $3,965 - 24
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $54,661Cash pay $11,479Medicare pays (avg) $3,932 - 25Gross charge $104,888Cash pay $27,271
- 26
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $7,243 - 27Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,091
- 28
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 29
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 30
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,040 - 31Gross charge —
- 32
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,791 - 33
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,615 - 34
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 35
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,593 - 36
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,913 - 37
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,846 - 38
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 39
Caldwell Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Columbia, LA
Gross charge — - 40
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 41Gross charge —Cash pay $4,406
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- 43
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $10,082 - 44
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,553 - 45
LSU Lallie Kemp Medical Center
Independence, LA
Gross charge — - 46
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,690 - 47
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 48
St James Parish Hospital
Lutcher, LA
Gross charge — - 49
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 50
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,096 - 51
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 52
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,392 - 53
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 54
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,855 - 55
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price pneumonia (Medicare DRG 194) anywhere from $5,328 to $104,888 — a $99,559 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Opelousas General Health System in Opelousas; the most expensive is Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center (Kings Hwy) in Shreveport. The state average sits at $27,471.
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 pneumonia 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 pneumonia 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 pneumonia in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 194 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.