Expert Foot Care: Insight & Solutions from a Specialist

At Geldwert Bunion Center, we believe the best medical innovations are the ones patients actually use. To that end, we recently sat down with Dr. Trinker, Head of Audiology at Audien Hearing, the #1 best-selling over-the-counter hearing aid brand in the United States. Audien’s perspective tracks closely with how we think about our own work, so we asked Dr. Trinker about designing care around real patient lives, and what it takes to build a hearing solution people genuinely adopt. Q: How do you balance advanced hearing technology with the need for a product to feel simple and intuitive to the

Bunion surgery costs $2,078 on average for a simple osteotomy and climbs to $8,510 for a joint fusion, a gap of more than $6,400 that depends on which procedure your surgeon selects. Patients who pay cash for a bunionectomy average $6,841, while the billed price for that same operation averages $11,757. We compiled 2026 pricing from national medical cost databases and federal insurance and wage data, then verified every figure against its original source. The sections below start with the price of each procedure type, then work through the facility and insurance costs that decide what you pay. Bunion Surgery

Expert Interview Josh Botbol of GlobalMed on Expanding Specialty Care Through Virtual Health Technology At the Geldwert Bunion Center, we see patients every week who have been living with chronic foot pain for years, not because the right treatment did not exist, but because getting to the right specialist felt out of reach. The travel. The time. The cost of a first consultation before a single treatment decision has been made. Guest: Josh Botbol, COO of GlobalMed Topic: Virtual specialty care For patients considering advanced bunion treatment Josh Botbol, COO of GlobalMed. 60+ Countries where GlobalMed technology supports clinical care

In our 2026 analysis, our team gathered data on the true cost of bunion surgery in the United States, comparing minimally invasive surgery (MIS) to traditional open procedures across procedure fees, facility costs, recovery time, and long-term outcomes. We compiled research from the Surgery Cost Guide’s 2026 national and state-by-state pricing data, a 2025 multi-dimensional systematic review of minimally invasive bunion surgery published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine , a 2022 large-scale cost study of over 100,000 bunion procedures, and the CareCredit Average Procedural Cost Study. The most striking finding When total out-of-pocket costs are calculated end-to-end, MIS patients