Check a bill from Lake Charles Memorial Hospital
Paste the lines of your itemized bill, and each procedure code is compared with the discounted cash price the hospital itself publishes, the median for the state and the Medicare rate. Lines billed above the hospital's own cash price go into a letter you can copy and send to its billing office. What you paste stays in your browser: it is not sent to SelfPayRates or anyone else.
Lake Charles Memorial Hospital, Lake Charles, LA: cash prices for 2,337 codes from its price file. Hospital page · Another hospital
What the hospital publishes for these codes
| Code | Billed | Hospital cash price | Difference | LA median | Medicare |
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Hospital cash price: the lowest outpatient discounted cash price for the code in the hospital's file. A bill can add services billed separately, such as the doctor's fee, and inpatient care is priced differently, so a difference is a question to ask, not proof of an error. Medicare: national 2026 rate, for reference.
A letter to the billing office
Fill in the brackets, then send it in writing and keep a copy. What else to ask for.