Louisiana procedure costs
161 hospitals · 2,323 Medicare providers · 3,859 procedure codes with Louisiana locality adjustments.
The short answer
Louisiana has 161 hospitals and 2,323 Medicare-billing providers across 3,859 procedure codes. The average Medicare payment per procedure is $232.37; the average submitted (billed) charge is $1,320.85.
- Procedure codes
- 3,859
- Providers per hospital
- 14.4
- Billed-to-Medicare ratio
- 5.7x
- Markup rank
- #23 of 56
Source: CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, 2023.
About this dataset, nationwide
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the 2023 Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners dataset records payments for 9,297 procedure codes billed across 5,426 hospitals in 56 states and territories; see our methodology for how each figure is sourced and computed.
Louisiana against every US state
Where the state's average Medicare payment per procedure falls, all 56 tracked jurisdictions
$232 higher than 52% of 56 states
Each bar is a $25-wide band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, 2023
The priciest procedures in Louisiana
Highest average Medicare payment per procedure billed in Louisiana. Hover any bar for the exact figure; even these top procedures are billed well above what Medicare reimburses.
Top procedures by Medicare payment - Louisiana
The cost spread in Louisiana
The highest- and lowest-paying procedures Medicare reimbursed in Louisiana, side by side.
Most expensive
Least expensive
Top Procedures by Volume
Louisiana Healthcare Cost Landscape
CMS lists 161 hospitals in Louisiana across 89 cities. BATON ROUGE holds 12 (7%). The three densest cities together hold 20% of the state roster. Statewide that is 2,323 Medicare-billing providers, 14.4 per listed hospital.
48 hospitals carry a CMS overall star rating (0 five-star, 11 four-star, 22 three-star, 14 two-star, 1 one-star) ; five-star share among rated facilities is 0%. 113 hospitals in this extract have no published overall rating.
Facility-type mix: Acute Care Hospitals 82 (51%); Psychiatric 44 (27%); Critical Access Hospitals 27 (17%); Acute Care - Veterans Administration 3 (2%).
Among the 30 highest-volume procedure codes billed in Louisiana, Drugs (Administered) leads with 7.6M services (37% of this top-volume slice) across 13 codes. Next is Office Visit at 11%.
Submitted charges average $1,320.85 against $232.37 Medicare payment (5.7x billed-to-Medicare). That ratio ranks #23 of 56 jurisdictions with both figures in this extract. Average Medicare payment itself is #27 of 56.
Volume leaders are not the high-payment codes. Provision Of Covid-19 Test, Nonprescription Self-Administered And Self-Collected Use, Fda Approved, Authorized Or Cleared, One Test Count is in the top volume slice but not the highest Medicare payments; Removal Of Plaque And Insertion Of Stents In Artery Of Leg, Initial Vessel is in the high-payment set without matching volume rank.
These are CMS roster and claims aggregates for Louisiana, not a quote for any patient, plan, or visit. See the methodology and CMS Medicare Provider Charge Data.
Where Louisiana hospitals sit
City of the CMS hospital roster, not a travel or care recommendation. 89 distinct cities appear on 161 listed facilities.
| City | Hospitals | Share of state roster |
|---|---|---|
| BATON ROUGE | 12 | 7% |
| NEW ORLEANS | 10 | 6% |
| SHREVEPORT | 10 | 6% |
| ALEXANDRIA | 7 | 4% |
| LAFAYETTE | 7 | 4% |
| LAKE CHARLES | 5 | 3% |
| HOUMA | 4 | 2% |
| MONROE | 4 | 2% |
Nationwide states with similar hospital scale or Medicare payment
Two CMS-extract-derived peer sets for Louisiana: nearest hospital inventory and nearest statewide average Medicare payment. Not clinical substitutes: registry-scale and payment neighborhoods only.
Similar CMS hospital count
Nearest states with ≥5 hospitals (161 here).
Similar average Medicare payment
Nearest states with published averages ($232.37 here).
Hospitals in Louisiana
How Louisiana Compares Nationally
Louisiana's average Medicare payment is #27 of 56 in this extract. Submitted-over-Medicare markup ranks #23 of 56 (5.7x). Hospital-count peers (nearest CMS roster size to 161): Indiana 150, Georgia 148, Michigan 148, Wisconsin 142. Payment peers (nearest average Medicare payment to $232.37): District of Columbia $235.89, Nevada $236.73, Arkansas $226.34, Connecticut $238.53.
Those peer sets are registry neighborhoods, not clinical substitutes. Markup rank and payment rank can diverge: a jurisdiction can sit high on billed-to-Medicare while sitting mid-pack on payment, or the reverse. Figures remain CMS averages for Louisiana, not an out-of-pocket quote.
Related registry pages
Louisiana averages sit on two maps: Medicare payment and submitted-over-Medicare markup.
- Procedure codes billed in this extract, in national volume order. Browse procedures
- State payment rank versus markup rank on the rankings hub. Rankings
- How these figures are sourced. Methodology
Figures here are Louisiana CMS averages, not a quote for any patient, plan, or visit.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure on PlainProcedure is rendered directly from CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.