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Doctor visits and therapy CPT 90870 Louisiana Outpatient

ECT cost in Louisiana

In Louisiana, 9 hospitals publish a cash price for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), one session: from $94.60 to $857.12, with a median of $523.20. The lowest price is at Ochsner St Anne General Hospital (Raceland). The highest price is 9.1× the lowest.

  • The median here, $523.20, is 51% below the US median of $1,074.00.
  • That is 0.6× Medicare's 2026 national rate for the same service ($877.34).
  • Louisiana ranks 3rd of 36 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 90870. Prices for both sides of the body and inpatient prices are not mixed in. Collected Sep 27, 2026. See them on a map

Lowest$94.60Ochsner St Anne General Hospital
Median$523.20half of hospitals charge less
Highest$857.12in Louisiana
Lowest saves$428.60vs the median

Hospitals in Louisiana, cheapest first

HospitalCash priceList priceFile date
Ochsner St Anne General Hospital lowest Raceland · Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA HC ECT - SINGLE SEIZURE $94.60 $215.00 Apr 1, 2026
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West Jefferson Medical Center Marrero · New Orleans-Metairie, LA Shock Treatment and Monitoring $311.84 $1,949.00 Jun 30, 2026
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Touro Infirmary New Orleans · New Orleans-Metairie, LA Shock Treatment and Monitoring $373.24 $2,666.00 Jul 1, 2026
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Ochsner Clinic Foundation New Orleans · New Orleans-Metairie, LA HC ECT - SINGLE SEIZURE $378.62 $1,721.00 Apr 1, 2026
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Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge Baton Rouge · Baton Rouge, LA HC ECT - SINGLE SEIZURE $523.20 $1,635.00 Apr 1, 2026
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Childrens Hospital New Orleans · New Orleans-Metairie, LA Shock Treatment and Monitoring $664.47 $2,461.00 Jun 24, 2026
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University Med Center New Orleans · New Orleans-Metairie, LA Shock Treatment and Monitoring $707.74 $3,217.00 Jul 1, 2026
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Glenwood Regional Medical Center - HSA West Monroe · Monroe, LA ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY $781.20 $1,654.38 Sep 1, 2026
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Baton Rouge General Medical Center Baton Rouge · Baton Rouge, LA ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY $857.12 $1,224.45 Mar 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.
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

By metro area

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

Metro areaHospitalsLowestMedian
New Orleans-Metairie, LA 5 $311.84 $378.62
Baton Rouge, LA 2 $523.20 $690.16
Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA 1 $94.60 $94.60
Monroe, LA 1 $781.20 $781.20
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 ECT is, what the price covers and why prices differ: ECT explained.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), one session in other states

Median cash price across the state's hospitals.