Substance Use Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
A hospital stay for alcohol or drug dependence, often to manage withdrawal, without a formal rehabilitation program during the stay. Care typically involves medications to ease withdrawal safely, monitoring, and treatment of related medical problems.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge $5,129Cash pay $1,385 - 2
Lasalle General Hospital
Jena, LA
Gross charge $6,563Cash pay $3,938 - 3
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $11,571Cash pay $5,786 - 4
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge $11,699Cash pay $2,340 - 5
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge $12,228Cash pay $5,747 - 6Gross charge $17,262Cash pay $4,833
- 7
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $19,984Cash pay $6,395 - 8
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge $20,747Cash pay $4,772 - 9
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $28,373Cash pay $11,349 - 10
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge $31,808Cash pay $10,179 - 11
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge $35,837Cash pay $26,877 - 12
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $51,584Cash pay $13,412 - 13Gross charge $52,804Cash pay $13,729
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North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $59,109Cash pay $19,998 - 15
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $60,657Cash pay $13,951 - 16
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $80,074Cash pay $16,816 - 17
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $97,706Cash pay $27,358 - 18
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $15,664 - 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 $9,080
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Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $21,896 - 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
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge — - 47
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 48
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 49
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 50
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price substance use (Medicare DRG 896) anywhere from $5,129 to $97,706 — a $92,577 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is St. Charles Parish Hospital in Luling; the most expensive is Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner in Kenner. The state average sits at $35,479.
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 substance use 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 substance use 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 substance use in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 896 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.