Doctor visits and therapy CPT 99195 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Therapeutic phlebotomy cost in New Orleans, LA — inpatient

In New Orleans-Metairie, LA, 4 hospitals list a cash price for therapeutic phlebotomy (removing blood as treatment) as an inpatient: from $51.04 to $148.68, with a median of $82.48. The lowest listed price is at Ochsner Clinic Foundation — $31.44 less than the median here. Across Louisiana, the median is $98.19 at 44 hospitals.

Cash prices at 4 facilities across 4 cities for code 99195, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Apr 1, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026.

Lowest$51.04Ochsner Clinic Foundation
Median$82.48half of hospitals charge less
Highest$148.68in this market
Difference2.9×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in New Orleans-Metairie, LA.

median
Lowest $51.04Highest $148.68

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceInsurers payOff list
Ochsner Clinic Foundation lowest New Orleans, LA · (504) 842-3000 HC THERAPEUTIC PHLEBOTOMY File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $51.04 $232.00 — 78%
St Bernard Parish Hospital Chalmette, LA · (504) 826-9500 HC THERAPEUTIC PHLEBOTOMY File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $74.24 $232.00 — 68%
St Charles Parish Hospital Luling, LA · (985) 785-3644 HC THERAPEUTIC PHLEBOTOMY File of Apr 1, 2026 · source file $90.72 $336.00 — 73%
Ochsner Medical Center – Kenner Kenner, LA · (504) 464-8065 HC THERAPEUTIC PHLEBOTOMY File of Sep 16, 2026 · source file $148.68 $531.00 — 72%
Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.
Cash price The hospital's own price for a patient paying without insurance (“discounted cash” in its price file). Hospitals must publish it under federal law, 45 CFR 180.50. Call to confirm it before booking. More
List price The hospital's full chargemaster price (“gross charge”) before any discount. Almost nobody pays it; the gap to the cash price shows what the self-pay discount is worth. More
Insurers pay The lowest and highest rates this hospital has agreed with insurance plans for the same item, from its price file. If the cash price is below what your plan pays and you have not met your deductible, paying cash can cost you less. More
Off list How much lower the cash price is than the list price.
At or below Medicare This cash price is at or below what Medicare pays a hospital for the same service, which is unusually low. It is what the hospital's file says; confirm it and what it includes before booking. More

Inpatient: lowest $51.04, median $82.48, highest $148.68 — a 2.9× difference within the same market.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 12 facilities here, median $78.84 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

What it is

Therapeutic phlebotomy removes a unit of blood to treat conditions with too much iron or too many red blood cells, such as hemochromatosis and polycythemia vera.

What the price covers

The price is for one session.