Cheapest hospitals in Baton Rouge, LA without insurance
Of 5 hospitals in the Baton Rouge, LA area we can compare, Ochsner St Mary (Morgan City) has the lowest cash prices: its typical outpatient price is 54% below the Louisiana median across 362 procedures. The ranking compares each hospital's own cash price with the median of all hospitals in its state, procedure by procedure.
Collected Sep 30, 2026 Hospitals with at least 30 comparable procedures
| Hospital | Typical price vs state | Below median | Above median |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Ochsner St Mary Morgan City | 54% below | 292 of 362 | 70 of 362 |
| 2. Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge Baton Rouge | 38% below | 326 of 427 | 96 of 427 |
| 3. St Helena Parish Hospital Greensburg | 39% above | 103 of 300 | 191 of 300 |
| 4. Surgical Specialty Center Baton Rouge | 95% above | 1 of 192 | 191 of 192 |
| 5. Baton Rouge General Medical Center Baton Rouge | 116% above | 9 of 342 | 333 of 342 |
Not in the ranking: West Feliciana Parish Hospital (St Francisville), Woman's Hospital Foundation (Baton Rouge) — their price files list no cash price (all US hospitals without one).
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How the ranking works
- For every procedure, we take the hospital's lowest outpatient cash price and compare it with the median of all hospitals in the same state that publish a cash price for the same code (only codes with at least three hospitals in the state).
- "Typical price" is the middle of those comparisons: half of the hospital's procedures are cheaper than that, half are dearer. One expensive surgery does not outweigh a hundred cheap lab tests, and the other way round.
- Hospitals with fewer than 30 comparable procedures are left out: with a handful of codes the place would be decided by chance.
- Prices far below every other hospital are worth a phone call: some price files list only part of a service (for example the facility fee without the doctor's fee), or a discount that depends on income.
- A low rank does not mean every price is low. Open the hospital to see the procedure you need, then ask its billing office for a Good Faith Estimate in writing.