DRG 805 · Maternity

Vaginal Delivery Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals

A vaginal birth, without tubal ligation or a D&C, for a mother with serious health complications. The stay covers labor, delivery, close monitoring of mother and baby, and recovery.

State average
$29,581
gross charge · DRG 805
Hospitals
13
with published pricing
Price range
$6,038 – $117,190
low to high
Lowest $6,038 Highest $117,190

Louisiana hospitals price vaginal delivery (Medicare DRG 805) anywhere from $6,038 to $117,190 — a $111,152 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Bayou Bend Hospital in Franklin; the most expensive is Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center (St Mary Pl) in Shreveport. The state average sits at $29,581.

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 vaginal delivery at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

For vaginal delivery in Louisiana, the price below is each hospital's gross charge for the facility portion of delivery — your actual out-of-pocket depends on insurance, length of stay, complications, and whether the obstetrician bills separately. Click any hospital name for its full maternity profile, including CMS star rating, patient-experience scores, and (where designated) the CMS Birthing-Friendly Hospital marker — a useful signal of maternity-care quality.

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 vaginal delivery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 805 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

    Bayou Bend Hospital

    Franklin, LA

    Gross charge $6,038
    Cash pay $4,226
  2. 2

    Opelousas General Health System

    Opelousas, LA

    Gross charge $6,485
    Cash pay $3,242
  3. 3

    West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital

    Sulphur, LA

    Gross charge $9,821
    Cash pay $7,366
  4. 4

    Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge

    Baton Rouge, LA

    Gross charge $13,653
    Cash pay $4,369
  5. 5
    Gross charge $13,904
    Cash pay $6,118
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    Ochsner Medical Center-Kenner

    Kenner, LA

    Gross charge $14,699
    Cash pay $4,116
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    Iberia Medical Center (Acute Care)

    New Iberia, LA

    Gross charge $15,257
    Cash pay $9,154
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    Womans Hospital

    Baton Rouge, LA

    Gross charge $17,723
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    St. Tammany Parish Hospital

    Covington, LA

    Gross charge $22,370
    Cash pay $8,948
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    Ochsner LSU Health Monroe

    Monroe, LA

    Gross charge $25,883
    Cash pay $5,953
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    North Oaks Medical Center

    Hammond, LA

    Gross charge $33,581
    Cash pay $8,298
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    Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center

    Lafayette, LA

    Gross charge $87,949
    Cash pay $18,469
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    Gross charge $117,190
    Cash pay $32,813
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    Natchitoches Regional Medical Center

    Natchitoches, LA

    Gross charge —
    Cash pay $8,882
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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 $5,252
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    Cash pay $12,271
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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 University Hospital & Clinics

    Lafayette, 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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