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
Lasalle General Hospital
Jena, LA
Gross charge $6,563Cash pay $3,938 - 2
Opelousas General Health System
Opelousas, LA
Gross charge $11,571Cash pay $5,786 - 3
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $16,803Cash pay $3,697 - 4
Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics
Lafayette, LA
Gross charge $16,803Cash pay $3,697 - 5
Ochsner Acadia General Hospital
Crowley, LA
Gross charge $16,803Cash pay $3,697 - 6
Ochsner St. Martin Hospital
Breaux Bridge, LA
Gross charge $16,803Cash pay $3,697 - 7
Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital
Kaplan, LA
Gross charge $16,803Cash pay $3,697 - 8
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $28,373Cash pay $11,349 - 9
West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital
Sulphur, LA
Gross charge $35,837Cash pay $26,877 - 10
Ochsner LSU Health Monroe
Monroe, LA
Gross charge $49,092Cash pay $11,291 - 11
Ochsner St. Mary
Morgan City, LA
Gross charge $49,092Cash pay $11,291 - 12
St. Charles Parish Hospital
Luling, LA
Gross charge $49,092Cash pay $11,291 - 13Gross charge $49,092Cash pay $11,291
- 14
Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge $49,092Cash pay $11,291 - 15
Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $49,092Cash pay $11,291 - 16
Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner
Kenner, LA
Gross charge $49,092Cash pay $11,291 - 17
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
Chalmette, LA
Gross charge $49,092Cash pay $11,291 - 18Gross charge $49,092Cash pay $11,291
- 19
Ochsner St. Anne Hospital
Raceland, LA
Gross charge $49,092Cash pay $11,291 - 20
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $59,109Cash pay $19,998 - 21
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $15,664 - 22Gross charge —
- 23
Rapides Regional Medical Center
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 24
CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 25
Abbeville General Hospital
Abbeville, LA
Gross charge — - 26
Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System
Shreveport, LA
Gross charge — - 27
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 28Gross charge —
- 29
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 30
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 31
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 32
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 33
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 34
Glenwood Regional Medical Center
West Monroe, LA
Gross charge — - 35
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 36
CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital
Lake Charles, LA
Gross charge — - 37
Physicians Medical Center
Houma, LA
Gross charge — - 38Gross charge —Cash pay $9,080
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- 40
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $21,896 - 41
Christus Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 42
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge — - 43
Bayou Bend Hospital
Franklin, LA
Gross charge — - 44
LSU Lallie Kemp Medical Center
Independence, LA
Gross charge — - 45
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Thibodaux, LA
Gross charge — - 46
Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital (Acute Care)
Alexandria, LA
Gross charge — - 47
Ochsner Medical Center Acute
New Orleans, LA
Gross charge — - 48
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 49
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 50
Christus Coushatta Health Care Center
Coushatta, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price substance use (Medicare DRG 896) anywhere from $6,563 to $59,109 — a $52,545 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Lasalle General Hospital in Jena; the most expensive is North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond. The state average sits at $35,820.
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.