Medical Procedure Costs in Louisiana
Louisiana Medicare physician rates are generally below the national average (-5.0%). CMS uses 2 localities here, so a ZIP matters.
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Featured table below is 59 procedures. Search covers 7,500+ fee-schedule codes.
What these numbers are
Every figure on this page is a 2026 Medicare allowed amount: the physician line comes from the Physician Fee Schedule adjusted by geographic practice-cost indices, and the facility totals come from the CMS hospital outpatient (OPPS) and ambulatory surgery centre rates. None of them is a hospital chargemaster price, your insurer's contracted rate, or a quote. Anesthesia, pathology, imaging reads and follow-up care are billed under their own codes when they apply, and an inpatient stay is paid a different way again. These Louisiana averages are unweighted means of the state’s localities, not population-weighted.
How Medicare prices Louisiana
Louisiana is one of the states CMS splits: the New Orleans area has its own payment locality, and the rest of the state, including Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and Lafayette, shares a second. New Orleans carries somewhat higher geographic adjustments, so identical procedures are approved at higher amounts there than elsewhere in the state. The two-locality structure has been stable for years and mirrors the metro's higher wage and rent levels. Everywhere outside greater New Orleans prices off the same rest-of-state factors.
New Orleans remains the state's medical center of gravity, with academic medicine and the deepest specialist bench, while Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Lafayette, and Lake Charles anchor their own regions. Rural parishes, especially in the north and along the coast, have limited hospital capacity and refer heavily into the cities. Louisiana's high rates of chronic disease keep demand for procedures strong across the state.
Check your ZIP code to see whether New Orleans locality pricing or rest-of-state pricing applies, from the metro area to Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Shreveport, and the rural parishes.
Louisiana payment localities (GPCI)
| Locality | Work | PE |
|---|---|---|
| new orleans | 1.000 | 0.941 |
| rest of louisiana | 1.000 | 0.885 |
GPCI of 1.000 equals the national average. Higher PE GPCI raises office-based procedures more than hospital physician lines.
Featured physician rates in Louisiana
Office (non-facility) physician rates. Open a row for the locality table and ZIP tool.
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Medical costs in Louisiana: questions
Across the 59 featured procedures on this page, Louisiana sits below the national average by about 5%. Examples: incision & drainage of abscess $121, skin biopsy (tangential) $89, skin biopsy (punch) $113. Search any other CPT in the box above — those codes are in the tool, not as extra Louisiana articles.
Louisiana has 2 payment localities. Practice-expense GPCI runs from 0.885 to 0.941 (1.000 is the national average). Check your ZIP code to see whether New Orleans locality pricing or rest-of-state pricing applies, from the metro area to Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Shreveport, and the rural parishes.
Medicare physician allowed amounts only — the professional fee after GPCI. They do not include hospital facility charges, anesthesia, or your plan’s contracted rate. Medicare patients typically owe 20% of the allowed amount after the Part B deductible, before Medigap.
Yes. The table is the featured set (59 procedures). The search box looks up 7,500+ payable codes from the 2026 fee schedule and applies Louisiana’s locality when you enter a ZIP.