Vaginal Delivery Cost in Louisiana — Compare All Hospitals
Vaginal delivery without sterilization, dilatation, or curettage — the most common inpatient procedure in the United States.
What this hospital charge usually covers
The gross-charge number above is the hospital's facility bill for vaginal delivery. Here's what's typically inside that price (typical inpatient stay: 1–2 days):
Included in the hospital bill
- Labor and delivery room
- Nursing and routine medications during labor and recovery
- Postpartum mother and baby room
- Routine newborn care (Apgar, vitamin K, eye prophylaxis, hearing screen)
- Standard lab work for mother and baby
Usually billed separately
- Obstetrician, midwife, and any anesthesiologist (epidural) professional fees
- Neonatologist or pediatrician fees
- Lactation consultant (sometimes included, sometimes not)
- Postpartum follow-up visits
- Circumcision (often a separate facility fee)
Quality signals to check before picking a hospital
Price alone won't tell you which hospital does vaginal delivery best. These are the CMS quality measures that matter most for this specific procedure. Click any hospital below for its full profile, then look for these:
Patient Experience (HCAHPS)
Communication during labor, nursing responsiveness, and discharge planning shape the whole birth experience.
Birthing-Friendly Hospital designation
CMS marks hospitals committed to evidence-based maternal care and support of physiologic birth.
C-Section Rate (NTSV)
For low-risk first-time mothers, an unusually high C-section rate may signal a hospital quick to escalate to surgical delivery.
When the cheapest hospital may not be the best fit
The list below sorts by price. For vaginal delivery, the lowest price isn't automatically the best fit — these are situations where it's worth weighing additional factors against price. None of the below is medical advice; talk to your doctor about what applies to your specific situation.
- For high-risk pregnancies (multiples, prior C-section, preeclampsia, diabetes), a hospital with a Level III or IV NICU is generally the safer setting regardless of price.
- For a specific birth plan (water birth, midwife-led, doula support), matching the hospital's protocols and amenities is usually more important than the price gap.
- When an obstetrician only delivers at certain hospitals, provider continuity usually matters more than price differences across facilities.
Questions to ask your hospital or insurer
The gross charge is the starting point. These are the procedure-specific questions to ask before you commit:
- Are both my obstetrician and the anesthesiologist (if I want an epidural) in-network?
- Is the pediatrician/neonatologist who will see my baby in-network?
- Is there a separate facility fee for the labor room versus the postpartum room?
- Does this estimate include a lactation consultant visit?
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Bayou Bend Hospital
Franklin, LA
Gross charge $5,432Cash pay $3,802 - 2
Iberia Medical Center (Acute Care)
New Iberia, LA
Gross charge $14,672Cash pay $8,803 - 3
Womans Hospital
Baton Rouge, LA
Gross charge $15,550 - 4
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Covington, LA
Gross charge $20,889Cash pay $8,356 - 5
North Oaks Medical Center
Hammond, LA
Gross charge $22,167Cash pay $8,298 - 6
Natchitoches Regional Medical Center
Natchitoches, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $5,764 - 7Gross charge —
- 8
Winn Parish Medical Center
Winnfield, LA
Gross charge — - 9
Avoyelles Hospital
Marksville, LA
Gross charge — - 10
Oakdale Community Hospital
Oakdale, LA
Gross charge — - 11
Claiborne Memorial Medical Center
Homer, LA
Gross charge — - 12
Minden Medical Center
Minden, LA
Gross charge — - 13
Byrd Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Leesville, LA
Gross charge — - 14
Mercy Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Ville Platte, LA
Gross charge — - 15
Sabine Medical Center
Many, LA
Gross charge — - 16Gross charge —Cash pay $3,276
- 17
Our Lady of the Lake Surgical Hospital
Slidell, LA
Gross charge —Cash pay $7,836 - 18
Acadian Medical Center
Eunice, LA
Gross charge —
Louisiana hospitals price vaginal delivery (Medicare DRG 807) anywhere from $5,432 to $22,167 — a $16,735 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Bayou Bend Hospital in Franklin; the most expensive is North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond. The state average sits at $15,742.
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 807 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.