Willis Knighton Medical Center

2600 Greenwood Road, Shreveport, LA 71103 · (318) 212-4000

Charges well above the national norm

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Willis Knighton Medical Center billed $5.45 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.

See all 217 prices How we grade

Charge-to-payment: 5.5x; volume-weighted across all its priced work
Procedures priced: 217; inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in LA: #34; lower markup ranks higher
CMS quality stars: 3/5; shown for context, not in the grade

How this grade was reached

Each component is scored against every other U.S. hospital in the same federal files, so the grade is a position in the country, not a pass mark we invented.

Inpatient charge markup 10.4/35

Better than 30% of U.S. hospitals.

Outpatient charge markup 11.5/25

Better than 46% of U.S. hospitals.

Price level vs national median 14.8/30

Better than 50% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 5.8/10

Better than 58% of U.S. hospitals.

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
Level 1 Intraocular Procedures APC 5491 · Hospital outpatient visit	2,057	$14,162	$1,990	+20%
Comprehensive Observation Services APC 8011 · Hospital outpatient visit	1,223	$19,124	$2,352	about average
Sepsis (severe) MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay	753	$72,561	$13,940	+11%
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit	411	$12,537	$1,387	+24%
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures APC 5115 · Hospital outpatient visit	406	$70,473	$11,297	+13%
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit	400	$21,938	$2,778	-13%
Heart Failure (severe) MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay	395	$46,694	$9,676	+8%
Level 2 Upper GI Procedures APC 5302 · Hospital outpatient visit	303	$15,321	$1,628	+30%
Level 3 Vascular Procedures APC 5183 · Hospital outpatient visit	263	$19,180	$2,721	about average
Pneumonia (severe) MS-DRG 193 · Inpatient stay	233	$50,499	$9,724	+8%

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
Acute Myocardial Infarction, Expired with Major Complications MS-DRG 283 · Inpatient stay	$160,860	$14,597	+89%
Postoperative and Post-traumatic Infections without Major Complications MS-DRG 863 · Inpatient stay	$71,262	$9,229	+86%
Level 3 Airway Endoscopy APC 5153 · Hospital outpatient visit	$19,896	$1,471	+74%
Level 4 Gynecologic Procedures APC 5414 · Hospital outpatient visit	$27,886	$2,635	+54%
Level 1 Nerve Procedures APC 5431 · Hospital outpatient visit	$17,065	$1,653	+50%
Degenerative Nervous System Disorders with Major Complications MS-DRG 056 · Inpatient stay	$127,708	$21,668	+48%
Level 3 Urology and Related Services APC 5373 · Hospital outpatient visit	$18,066	$1,752	+40%
Level 4 ENT Procedures APC 5164 · Hospital outpatient visit	$26,225	$2,791	+38%

Where it charges least relative to everyone else

Procedure	Charged	Actually paid	vs national
Other Cardiothoracic Procedures with Major Complications MS-DRG 228 · Inpatient stay	$116,656	$34,762	-48%
Level 4 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures APC 5224 · Hospital outpatient visit	$52,460	$16,851	-45%
Myeloproliferative Disorders or Poorly Differentiated Neoplasms with Other Procedures Wi MS-DRG 829 · Inpatient stay	$108,029	$27,541	-42%
Level 2 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures APC 5222 · Hospital outpatient visit	$22,510	$7,363	-41%
Fracture, Sprain, Strain and Dislocation Except Femur, Hip, Pelvis and Thigh without MS-DRG 563 · Inpatient stay	$22,832	$7,017	-38%
Ischemic Stroke, Precerebral Occlusion or Transient Ischemia with Thrombolytic Agent Wit MS-DRG 062 · Inpatient stay	$58,416	$14,077	-38%
Percutaneous and Other Intracardiac Procedures without Major Complications MS-DRG 274 · Inpatient stay	$77,734	$21,566	-38%
Organic Disturbances and Intellectual Disability MS-DRG 884 · Inpatient stay	$31,286	$11,819	-37%

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.

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The record

CMS provider number: 190111
Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Private
Emergency department: Yes
Setting: Metropolitan area core: primary flow within an urbanized area of 50,000 and greater

Source: CMS Medicare Inpatient and Outpatient utilisation files and Hospital General Information. See the files.