Respiratory Failure Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for pulmonary edema and respiratory failure, often requiring ventilator support.
State average
$56,453
gross charge · DRG 189
Hospitals
25
with published pricing
Price range
$8,040 – $327,292
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $8,040Cash pay $4,020Medicare pays (avg) $7,736 - 2
Lasalle General Hospital
Jena, LA
Gross charge $10,737Cash pay $6,442 - 3
East Carroll Parish Hospital
Lake Providence, LA
Gross charge $12,591Cash pay $9,444 - 4
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge $13,954Cash pay $6,279 - 5
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge $18,422Cash pay $8,659 - 6
Womans Hospital
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $20,193 - 7
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge $22,246Cash pay $16,685Medicare pays (avg) $7,445 - 8
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge $26,949Cash pay $11,858 - 9
Bayou Bend Hospital
Franklin, LA
Gross charge $33,014Cash pay $23,110 - 10
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $34,870Cash pay $13,948Medicare pays (avg) $6,962 - 11
Jackson Parish Hospital
Jonesboro, LA
Gross charge $35,247Cash pay $12,062 - 12
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge $35,818Cash pay $11,462 - 13
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge $37,677Cash pay $11,303Medicare pays (avg) $9,114 - 14
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge $37,677Cash pay $11,303 - 15
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge $39,527Cash pay $10,672 - 16
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $48,611Cash pay $11,181Medicare pays (avg) $9,198 - 17
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge $54,764Cash pay $10,953 - 18Gross charge $65,201Cash pay $18,256
- 19
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $67,490Cash pay $21,597Medicare pays (avg) $7,950 - 20
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $69,644Cash pay $14,654Medicare pays (avg) $7,455 - 21
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $74,064Cash pay $19,257 - 22
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $82,703Cash pay $23,157Medicare pays (avg) $8,605 - 23
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge $95,513Cash pay $21,968Medicare pays (avg) $8,094 - 24Gross charge $139,072Cash pay $36,159Medicare pays (avg) $11,108
- 25
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $327,292Cash pay $68,731Medicare pays (avg) $7,263 - 26
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $10,853Medicare pays (avg) $9,213 - 27Gross charge —
- 28
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,484 - 29
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 30
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,774 - 31Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,137
- 32
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 33
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 34
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 35
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 36
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 37
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 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 $6,253
- 42Gross charge —
- 43
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $15,214 - 44
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 45
LSU Lallie Kemp Medical Center
Independence, LA
Gross charge — - 46
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,243 - 47
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 48
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 49
St James Parish Hospital
Lutcher, LA
Gross charge — - 50
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge — - 51
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,925 - 52
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,004 - 53
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 54
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,407 - 55
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price respiratory failure (Medicare DRG 189) anywhere from $8,040 to $327,292 — a $319,252 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Opelousas General Health System in Opelousas; the most expensive is Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center in Lafayette. The state average sits at $56,453.
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 respiratory failure 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 respiratory failure 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 respiratory failure in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 189 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.