Signs & Symptoms Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for unexplained signs and symptoms without a definitive diagnosis at discharge.
State average
$19,705
gross charge · DRG 948
Hospitals
6
with published pricing
Price range
$7,271 – $44,697
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Lasalle General Hospital
Jena, LA
Gross charge $7,271Cash pay $4,363 - 2
East Carroll Parish Hospital
Lake Providence, LA
Gross charge $13,099Cash pay $9,824 - 3
Bayou Bend Hospital
Franklin, LA
Gross charge $16,134Cash pay $11,294 - 4
Womans Hospital
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $17,962 - 5
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $19,068Cash pay $7,627 - 6
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $44,697Cash pay $8,922 - 7
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $7,056 - 8Gross charge —
- 9
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 10
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 11
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 12
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 13
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 14
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 15
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 16
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 17Gross charge —Cash pay $4,014
- 18
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $9,769 - 19
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price signs & symptoms (Medicare DRG 948) anywhere from $7,271 to $44,697 — a $37,426 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 $19,705.
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 signs & symptoms 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 signs & symptoms 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 signs & symptoms in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 948 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.