Hospital · CCN 190267

Avala

67252 Industry Lane, Covington, LA 70433 · St. Tammany Parish
Part of LCMC Health System · 21 beds · 5
Secondary flow 30% to <50% to a larger urbanized area of 50,000 and greater

4 admission types 23 outpatient services

Billed per dollar paid, all admissions

6.02×

$19.3M billed against $3.2M paid across 131 Medicare discharges; the national figure is 5.03×.

4.5%

of adults in St. Tammany Parish have medical debt in collections

8.0%

uninsured in the county · state 8.3%

$78K

median household income

5.8×

billed ÷ paid, inpatient, summed over the county's hospitals in the Medicare file (6 in the inpatient or outpatient file)ⓘ

37.4%

obesity in the countyⓘ

13.3%

diagnosed diabetes (PLACES)

7.0%

coronary heart disease (PLACES)

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median age · — below poverty (ACS)

01 · Admissions

What it billed Medicare, by admission type

Average charge submitted and average total payment per discharge, 2024. Rows under 11 discharges are suppressed by CMS. The last column is the hospital's ratio against its state's for the same admission.

DRG

Admission

Discharges

Charge

Paid

Billed ÷ paid

455

Combined anterior and posterior spinal fusion without cc/mcc

$161,630

$29,007

5.6× st 4.4×

473

Cervical spinal fusion without cc/mcc

$107,717

$15,146

7.1× st 5.6×

402

Single level combined anterior and posterior spinal fusion except cervical

$134,914

$24,238

5.6× st 4.5×

428

Multiple level combined anterior and posterior spinal fusion except cervical without cc/

$219,818

$34,087

6.4× st 4.8×

02 · Outpatient

Outpatient services

Comprehensive APCs, Medicare's outpatient payment groups: submitted charge against what Medicare allowed, per service.

APC

Service

Services

Charge

Allowed

Billed ÷ allowed

5115

Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures

201

$71,150

$11,135

6.4×

5114

Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures

134

$40,684

$6,060

6.7×

5431

Level 1 Nerve Procedures

$14,028

$1,636

8.6×

5113

Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures

$23,987

$2,742

8.7×

5491

Level 1 Intraocular Procedures

$13,210

$1,974

6.7×

5112

Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures

$16,145

$1,361

11.9×

5116

Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures

$75,528

$15,754

4.8×

5492

Level 2 Intraocular Procedures

$18,615

$3,444

5.4×

5091

Level 1 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures

$33,967

$3,229

10.5×

5503

Level 3 Extraocular, Repair, and Plastic Eye Procedures

$15,191

$1,979

7.7×

5465

Level 5 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures

—

5471

Implantation of Drug Infusion Device

—

5493

Level 3 Intraocular Procedures

—

5463

Level 3 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures

—

5462

Level 2 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures

—

5461

Level 1 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures

—

5432

Level 2 Nerve Procedures

—

5072

Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

—

5165

Level 5 ENT Procedures

—

5094

Level 4 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures

—

5092

Level 2 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures

—

5073

Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

—

5504

Level 4 Extraocular, Repair, and Plastic Eye Procedures

—

Sources for this hospital

the files read, as fetched — not our copy of them

Medicare Inpatient Hospitals - by Provider and Service · CMS · 2024
MUP_INP_RY26_P03_V10_DY24_PrvSvc.CSV · 38.0M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 2ab6da15be4c… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)
Medicare Outpatient Hospitals - by Provider and Service · CMS · 2024
MUP_OUT_RY26_P04_V10_DY24_Prov_Svc.csv · 28.1M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 f293918edbf6… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)
AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems — hospital linkage file · AHRQ · 2023
chsp-hospital-linkage-2023.csv · 1.5M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 a86146f10c8d… · publisher's page · public; cite AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems
2020 ZCTA to County relationship file · US Census Bureau · 2020
tab20_zcta520_county20_natl.txt · 6.8M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 3ed41278d637… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)

Every figure on this page is computed from these files by pipeline/prices/; the same rows are in the API.

Source rows for this hospital as JSON: inpatient · outpatient. CMS, Medicare Inpatient and Outpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service, 2024.