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Louisiana Hospital Price Report

What hospitals charge for shoppable care across Louisiana — drawn from 45 hospitals' machine-readable files. Figures are medians with robust 10th–90th-percentile ranges across hospitals in the state.

The same procedure, wildly different prices

Even within Louisiana, the negotiated price at a pricier hospital can be many times what a cheaper one charges — for the same service.

ProcedureTypical range (10th–90th pct)MedianHospitals
Allergy Skin Testing$38 – $1,539$96221
Initial Hospital Admission (Level 1)$82 – $3,074$17918
Cardiac Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation$2,166 – $37,536$23,50222
Skin Lesion Removal (Benign, up to 0.5 cm)$188 – $2,978$1,53127
Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy (Under Age 12)$680 – $9,032$5,41422
Cardiac Stress Test (Treadmill)$67 – $743$47718
Skin Biopsy (Tangential)$164 – $1,791$35727
Total Hip Replacement$2,085 – $22,556$12,11220

Cash can beat the list price

The “gross” charge is the hospital's list price; the cash price is what many will accept from a self-pay patient. For these procedures in Louisiana, the cash price is a fraction of the list price.

ProcedureCash (median)Gross / list (median)
Total Knee Replacement$8,612$36,007
Allergy Skin Testing$435$1,758
Skin Lesion Removal (Benign, up to 0.5 cm)$883$3,211
Ear Tube Placement (Tympanostomy)$1,380$4,896
Home Sleep Study$261$900
Lumbar Epidural Steroid Injection$760$2,593

The most expensive shoppable procedures in Louisiana

ProcedureMedian negotiatedHospitals
Cardiac Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation$23,50222
Lumbar Spinal Fusion (Posterior)$17,43818
Total Hip Replacement$12,11220
Total Knee Replacement$11,98622
Cervical Spinal Fusion (Anterior)$11,90018
Coronary Angioplasty with Stent$10,72426

Medians and percentiles are computed across each hospital's representative facility price, from its latest machine-readable file. See methodology for how prices are derived.

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