Surgery and procedures CPT 28285 Inpatient — admitted to hospital

Hammertoe surgery cost in New York, NY — inpatient

In New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ, 5 hospitals list a cash price for hammertoe correction surgery as an inpatient: from $449.80 to $12,808.00, with a median of $1,461.60. The lowest listed price is at St. Barnabas Hospital — $1,011.80 less than the median here. Across New York, the median is $3,497.44 at 26 hospitals.

Cash prices at 5 facilities across 5 cities for code 28285, as an inpatient (admitted to hospital) . Collected Sep 23, 2026; the hospital files themselves were last updated between Oct 28, 2025 and Apr 1, 2026.

Lowest$449.80St. Barnabas Hospital
Median$1,461.60half pay less
Highest$12,808.00in this market
Difference28.5×highest vs lowest

Where each hospital's price falls

Each dot is one hospital's cash price on a scale from the lowest to the highest in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ.

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Lowest $449.80Highest $12,808.00

Hospitals, cheapest first

HospitalCash price List priceInsurers payOff listFile date
St. Barnabas Hospital lowest Bronx, NY · (212) 960-9000 PR CORRECTION HAMMERTOE $449.80 $1,621.59 $315.27–$1,013.38 72% Feb 27, 2026
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Maimonides Medical Center Brooklyn, NY · (718) 283-6000 REVISION OF HAMMERTOE $1,130.00 $1,130.00 — — Apr 1, 2026
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Nassau University Medical Center East Meadow, NY · (516) 572-0123 REPAIR OF HAMMERTOE $1,461.60 $2,088.00 $382.83–$641.32 30% Oct 28, 2025
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Hmh Hospitals Neptune City, NJ CORRECTION HAMMERTOE $3,591.33 $4,675.00 $776.05–$4,675.00 23% Dec 31, 2025
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Maimonides Medical Center Brooklyn, NY · (718) 283-6000 CORRECTION HAMMERTOE $11,362.00 $11,362.00 — — Apr 1, 2026
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Newton Medical Center Newton, NJ · (973) 383-2121 Repair Hammertoe $12,808.00 $12,808.00 — — —
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Inpatient: lowest $449.80, median $1,461.60, highest $12,808.00 — a 28.5× difference within the same market.

As an outpatient, the same code is billed by 27 facilities here, median $3,594.44 — that is the price to compare if you are not being admitted.

Cash or insurance?

At 2 of 3 hospitals that publish insurer rates for this code here, the cash price is below the highest rate a health plan has negotiated, and at none is it below every plan's rate. If you have insurance but have not met your deductible, you usually pay your plan's negotiated rate, which falls somewhere in the "Insurers pay" column. Paying cash can cost less, but a cash payment usually does not count toward your deductible. Ask the hospital for both numbers before you book.

What it is

Hammertoe surgery straightens a bent toe by removing a small piece of bone or fusing the joint.

What the price covers

The hospital price usually covers the operating room, recovery and supplies. The surgeon and anesthesia usually bill separately.