Stroke Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
A stroke caused by a blocked blood vessel or bleeding in the brain. Hospital care includes brain imaging, monitoring, medicines to lower the chance of another stroke, and early rehabilitation planning.
State average
$25,736
gross charge · DRG 066
Hospitals
18
with published pricing
Price range
$4,472 – $62,111
low to high
Data notes for Louisiana
- The lowest published charge ($4,472 at Opelousas General Health System) 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
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $4,472Cash pay $2,236 - 2
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge $12,990Cash pay $6,105 - 3
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge $14,905Cash pay $4,770 - 4
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge $16,920Cash pay $12,690 - 5
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge $17,918Cash pay $4,121 - 6
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge $18,403Cash pay $8,097 - 7
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge $20,877Cash pay $5,637 - 8
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $20,948Cash pay $6,703 - 9
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge $22,374Cash pay $6,712Medicare pays (avg) $4,272 - 10
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge $22,374Cash pay $6,712 - 11
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge $22,649Cash pay $4,530 - 12
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $22,975Cash pay $9,190 - 13
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $30,877Cash pay $7,102 - 14
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $31,451Cash pay $8,177 - 15
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $35,209Cash pay $7,394Medicare pays (avg) $3,121 - 16Gross charge $40,632Cash pay $10,564
- 17
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $45,166Cash pay $7,730Medicare pays (avg) $2,637 - 18
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $62,111Cash pay $17,391 - 19
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $6,056 - 20Gross charge —
- 21
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,425 - 22
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 23
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,658 - 24Gross charge —
- 25
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 26
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 27
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 28
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 29
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 30
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 31
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 32
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 33Gross charge —Cash pay $3,629
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- 35
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $8,463 - 36
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, 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
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 40
St James Parish Hospital
Lutcher, LA
Gross charge — - 41
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 42
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $2,884 - 43
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 44Gross charge —
- 45
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge — - 46
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,349 - 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 stroke (Medicare DRG 066) anywhere from $4,472 to $62,111 — a $57,638 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Opelousas General Health System in Opelousas; the most expensive is Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner in Kenner. The state average sits at $25,736.
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 stroke 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 stroke 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 stroke in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 066 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.