DRG 579 · Skin

Skin & Breast Surgery Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals

Surgery on the skin, the tissue beneath it, or the breast, such as removing a growth or repairing damaged tissue. The stay includes the procedure, wound care, and monitoring during early healing.

State average
$104,662
gross charge · DRG 579
Hospitals
12
with published pricing
Price range
$21,179 – $381,707
low to high
Lowest $21,179 Highest $381,707

Louisiana hospitals price skin & breast surgery (Medicare DRG 579) anywhere from $21,179 to $381,707 — a $360,528 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 $104,662.

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 skin & breast surgery 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 skin & breast surgery 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 skin & breast surgery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 579 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.

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Opelousas General Health System

    Opelousas, LA

    Gross charge $21,179
    Cash pay $10,589
  2. 2

    Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics

    Lafayette, LA

    Gross charge $36,739
    Cash pay $9,552
  3. 3

    West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital

    Sulphur, LA

    Gross charge $38,242
    Cash pay $28,681
  4. 4

    Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner

    Kenner, LA

    Gross charge $55,011
    Cash pay $15,403
  5. 5

    Ochsner LSU Health Monroe

    Monroe, LA

    Gross charge $61,592
    Cash pay $14,166
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    Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge

    Baton Rouge, LA

    Gross charge $70,349
    Cash pay $22,512
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    St. Tammany Parish Hospital

    Covington, LA

    Gross charge $79,040
    Cash pay $31,616
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    Gross charge $94,033
    Cash pay $25,389
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    North Oaks Medical Center

    Hammond, LA

    Gross charge $138,599
    Cash pay $36,600
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    Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center

    Lafayette, LA

    Gross charge $138,884
    Cash pay $29,166
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    Womans Hospital

    Baton Rouge, LA

    Gross charge $140,570
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    Gross charge $381,707
    Cash pay $99,244
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    Natchitoches Regional Medical Center

    Natchitoches, LA

    Gross charge —
    Cash pay $29,443
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    Terrebonne General Medical Center - Parish

    Houma, LA

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    Rapides Regional Medical Center

    Alexandria, LA

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    Abbeville General Hospital

    Abbeville, LA

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    Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)

    Lake Charles, LA

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    Avoyelles Hospital

    Marksville, LA

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    Oakdale Community Hospital

    Oakdale, LA

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    Claiborne Memorial Medical Center

    Homer, LA

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    Minden Medical Center

    Minden, LA

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    Glenwood Regional Medical Center

    West Monroe, LA

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    Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Leesville, LA

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    Cash pay $16,039
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    Cash pay $40,076
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    Acadian Medical Center

    Eunice, LA

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    Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Thibodaux, LA

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    Ochsner Medical Center Acute

    New Orleans, LA

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    Ochsner St. Mary

    Morgan City, LA

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    CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital

    Lake Charles, LA

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    Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System

    Shreveport, LA

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    Ochsner Acadia General Hospital

    Crowley, LA

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    St. Bernard Parish Hospital

    Chalmette, LA

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    Ochsner St. Martin Hospital

    Breaux Bridge, LA

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    Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)

    Alexandria, LA

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    Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center

    Houma, LA

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    Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Ville Platte, LA

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    Christus Coushatta Health Care Center

    Coushatta, LA

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