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Surgery and procedures CPT 31276 Louisiana Outpatient

Sinus surgery, frontal cost in Louisiana

In Louisiana, 8 hospitals publish a cash price for endoscopic sinus surgery: opening the frontal sinus: from $2,639.78 to $22,351.37, with a median of $6,068.28. The lowest price is at Ochsner Clinic Foundation (New Orleans). The highest price is 8.5× the lowest.

  • The median here, $6,068.28, is 16% below the US median of $7,233.52.
  • Louisiana ranks 9th of 25 states by median, cheapest first.
  • Every hospital here lists a cash price below its full list price.

Outpatient cash prices, one line per hospital — its lowest listed price for code 31276. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Nov 10, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$2,639.78Ochsner Clinic Foundation
Median$6,068.28half of hospitals charge less
Highest$22,351.37in Louisiana
Lowest saves$3,428.50vs the median

Hospitals in Louisiana, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceFile date
Ochsner Clinic Foundation lowest New Orleans · New Orleans-Metairie, LA PR NASAL/SINUS ENDOSCOPY,EXPLOR FRONTAL SINUS $2,639.78 $11,999.00 Apr 1, 2026
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Physicians Medical Center F Houma · Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA NASAL SINUS ENDOSCOPY, SURGICAL WITH MAXILLARY ANTROSTOMY $4,491.24 $6,479.00 Sep 24, 2026
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Acadia General Hospital Crowley · Lafayette, LA SINUS ENDOSCOPY SURGICAL $5,427.66 $23,598.54 Apr 1, 2026
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Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics Lafayette · Lafayette, LA SINUS ENDOSCOPY SURGICAL $5,716.32 $21,985.86 Apr 1, 2026
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Glenwood Regional Medical Center - HSA West Monroe · Monroe, LA NSL/SINS NDSC FRNT TISS RMVL $6,420.23 — Sep 1, 2026
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Lafayette General Medical Center Lafayette · Lafayette, LA SINUS ENDOSCOPY SURGICAL $6,870.64 $32,717.31 Apr 1, 2026
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Ochsner American Legion Hospital Jennings · Lake Charles, LA SINUS ENDOSCOPY SURGICAL $9,151.82 $26,917.13 Apr 1, 2026
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Omega Hospital Metairie · New Orleans-Metairie, LA NASAL/SINUS NDSC W/RMVL TISS FROM FRONTAL SINUS $22,351.37 $38,316.63 May 26, 2026
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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
File date When the hospital last updated its price file, as the file says itself. A dash means the file gives no date.

By metro area

Each metro page compares every listing, including prices for both sides of the body.

Metro areaHospitalsLowestMedian
Lafayette, LA 3 $5,427.66 $5,716.32
New Orleans-Metairie, LA 2 $2,639.78 $12,495.58
Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA 1 $4,491.24 $4,491.24
Lake Charles, LA 1 $9,151.82 $9,151.82
Monroe, LA 1 $6,420.23 $6,420.23
Market A metro area (as the Census Bureau defines it) or, outside metro areas, a town. Each links to every hospital price there.
Hospitals How many hospitals publish a cash price for this code here. Each hospital counts once, at its lowest outpatient cash price.
Lowest The lowest cash price among those hospitals.
Median The middle cash price: half of the hospitals charge less, half charge more. One price per hospital. More

What sinus surgery, frontal is, what the price covers and why prices differ: Sinus surgery, frontal explained.

Endoscopic sinus surgery: opening the frontal sinus in other states

Median cash price across the state's hospitals.