Ungraded
St Charles Parish Hospital
1057 Paul Maillard Road, Luling, LA 70070 · (985) 785-3644
Not enough published pricing to grade
For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, St Charles Parish Hospital billed $3.00 in list charges. That gap does not change a Medicare patient's bill — but it is where an uninsured or out-of-network bill starts.
- Charge-to-payment
- 3.0x
- volume-weighted across all its priced work
- Procedures priced
- 4
- inpatient and outpatient combined
- Rank in LA
- —
- lower markup ranks higher
- CMS quality stars
- Not rated
- shown for context, not in the grade
What this hospital treats most
The ten procedures it billed Medicare for most often, with its charge beside the national middle.
| Procedure | Patients | Charged | Actually paid | vs national |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Comprehensive Observation Services
APC 8011 · Hospital outpatient visit |
52 | $10,181 | $2,319 | -48% |
|
Level 1 Intraocular Procedures
APC 5491 · Hospital outpatient visit |
16 | $7,044 | $1,974 | -40% |
|
Level 4 Urology and Related Services
APC 5374 · Hospital outpatient visit |
15 | $8,994 | $2,953 | -56% |
|
Heart Failure (severe)
MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay |
13 | $12,218 | $8,914 | -72% |
Where its charges run furthest above the national middle
Only procedures it performed at least eleven times, so a single unusual case cannot produce the headline.
| Procedure | Charged | Actually paid | vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Level 1 Intraocular Procedures
APC 5491 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$7,044 | $1,974 | -40% |
|
Comprehensive Observation Services
APC 8011 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$10,181 | $2,319 | -48% |
|
Level 4 Urology and Related Services
APC 5374 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$8,994 | $2,953 | -56% |
|
Heart Failure (severe)
MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay |
$12,218 | $8,914 | -72% |
Where it charges least relative to everyone else
| Procedure | Charged | Actually paid | vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Heart Failure (severe)
MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay |
$12,218 | $8,914 | -72% |
|
Level 4 Urology and Related Services
APC 5374 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$8,994 | $2,953 | -56% |
|
Comprehensive Observation Services
APC 8011 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$10,181 | $2,319 | -48% |
|
Level 1 Intraocular Procedures
APC 5491 · Hospital outpatient visit |
$7,044 | $1,974 | -40% |
What this page cannot tell you
- It is not your bill. These are averages across Medicare patients. What you pay depends on your insurance, your plan's negotiated rate and your own case.
- It is not a quality rating. A hospital with a high markup may be excellent, and one with a low markup may not be. We checked: across every U.S. hospital, markup and the CMS quality star rating barely move together.
- A charge is not a cost. Hospitals do not collect their list charges from insured patients. The number matters because it is the opening figure on an uninsured or out-of-network bill.
- Ask for the real number. Every U.S. hospital must publish a machine-readable price file and give you a written good-faith estimate on request.