Post-Surgery & Wound Infections Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
An infection that develops after an operation or an injury, such as an infected surgical incision or wound. The hospital stay typically involves IV antibiotics, wound care, and monitoring while the infection clears.
State average
$59,292
gross charge · DRG 862
Hospitals
17
with published pricing
Price range
$4,779 – $222,820
low to high
Data notes for Louisiana
- The lowest published charge ($4,779 at Ochsner St. Anne Hospital) is unusually low for an inpatient stay. This may reflect a data-quality issue in the hospital's MRF rather than an actual price — verify directly with the hospital before relying on it.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge $4,779Cash pay $2,103 - 2
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $11,947Cash pay $5,974 - 3Gross charge $12,435Cash pay $3,482
- 4
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge $18,013Cash pay $5,764 - 5
Womans Hospital
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $21,390 - 6
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge $23,841Cash pay $11,205 - 7
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $25,983Cash pay $6,756 - 8
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge $35,229Cash pay $9,512 - 9
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $44,631Cash pay $17,852 - 10
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $63,649Cash pay $20,647 - 11
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge $68,067Cash pay $13,613 - 12Gross charge $76,748Cash pay $19,955
- 13
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $79,358Cash pay $22,220 - 14
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge $80,871Cash pay $18,600 - 15
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $85,257Cash pay $19,609 - 16
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $132,946Cash pay $27,919 - 17
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $222,820Cash pay $71,303 - 18
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $16,227 - 19Gross charge —
- 20
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 21
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 22
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 23Gross charge —
- 24
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 25
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 26
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 27
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 28
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 29
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 30
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 31
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 32Gross charge —Cash pay $9,673
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- 34
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $22,608 - 35
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 36
Bayou Bend Hospital
Franklin, LA
Gross charge — - 37
LSU Lallie Kemp Medical Center
Independence, LA
Gross charge — - 38
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 39
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge — - 40
Sabine Medical Center
Many, 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
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge — - 45
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge — - 46
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 47
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 48
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 49
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price post-surgery & wound infections (Medicare DRG 862) anywhere from $4,779 to $222,820 — a $218,041 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Ochsner St. Anne Hospital in Raceland; the most expensive is Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge in Baton Rouge. The state average sits at $59,292.
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 post-surgery & wound infections 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 post-surgery & wound infections 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 post-surgery & wound infections in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 862 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.