Shoulder & Arm Joint Replacement Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
Surgery to replace a major joint in the shoulder, elbow, or wrist — most often a total shoulder replacement — or to reattach part of an arm. The hospital stay covers the operation, pain control, and early physical therapy.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $16,558Cash pay $8,279 - 2
Cypress Pointe Surgical Hospital
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $28,734Cash pay $35,918 - 3
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge $34,238Cash pay $25,679 - 4
Iberia Medical Center (Acute Care)
New Iberia, LA
Gross charge $49,706Cash pay $29,824 - 5
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $78,532Cash pay $21,989 - 6
AVALA Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $89,127Cash pay $44,578 - 7
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $89,976Cash pay $28,792 - 8Gross charge $127,533Cash pay $33,159
- 9
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge $136,582Cash pay $31,414 - 10Gross charge $157,496Cash pay $44,099
- 11
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $158,987Cash pay $63,595 - 12
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $185,308Cash pay $38,915Medicare pays (avg) $14,020 - 13
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $191,641Cash pay $28,615 - 14
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $21,884 - 15Gross charge —
- 16
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 17
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 18
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 19Gross charge —
- 20
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 21
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 22
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 23
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 24
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 25
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 26
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 27
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 28Gross charge —Cash pay $12,167
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- 30
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $31,331 - 31
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 32
LSU Lallie Kemp Medical Center
Independence, LA
Gross charge — - 33
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 34
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge — - 35
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 36
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge — - 37
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 38
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge — - 39
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 40
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $14,613 - 41
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge — - 42
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 43
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge — - 44
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, 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 shoulder & arm joint replacement (Medicare DRG 483) anywhere from $16,558 to $191,641 — a $175,083 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Opelousas General Health System in Opelousas; the most expensive is North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond. The state average sits at $103,417.
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 shoulder & arm joint replacement at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling shoulder & arm joint replacement 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 shoulder & arm joint replacement in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 483 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.