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Plastic Surgery in NYC & Long Island: Costs, Credentials & Hospitals

The same 34 procedures as our NYC comparison, priced for the Long Island market: Nassau and Suffolk sit with the New Jersey band rather than the Manhattan one, and every credential is identical. Use this page if you live on Long Island, or if you are comparing a Woodbury or Huntington practice against a Midtown one.

34Procedures compared
10–25%Below Manhattan all-in
14Towns covered
8Hospitals with privileges
Quick answer

Long Island plastic surgery costs about 10–25% below Manhattan for the same board-certified surgeons, because the difference is facility fee, staffing and rent rather than skill. What Long Island does not change is the credential test: ABPS certification (or ABFPRS for face and nose work), operating privileges at an accredited Nassau or Suffolk hospital, and a written itemised all-in quote. Pick a procedure below for the full comparison.

Why Long Island is cheaper than Manhattan

Long Island and Manhattan differ mainly in overhead, not in surgical skill. Facility fees, staffing and rent are lower on the island, which pulls most procedures into the New Jersey price tier rather than the Manhattan tier. The size of that gap is not the same for every procedure, and on a few — where the island has a thinner surgeon pool for that operation — the Long Island band is the higher of the two. Each page states its own numbers rather than promising a fixed discount.

The practical difference is aftercare, not the operation. Follow-ups at 1 day, 1 week, 3 weeks and 6 months are where Long Island and Manhattan surgeons diverge in convenience: a Manhattan practice can put you on a Midtown operating room and a follow-up on the same trip, while a Long Island patient travelling to the city is often better served keeping both in their own market.

Ask which hospital holds the surgeon’s operating privileges, not which office they consult in. A surgeon can consult in Manhattan and operate on Long Island, and the reverse, and neither tells you anything about the credential itself.

The 10–25% gap is a pricing observation about facility fees and overhead, not a difference in surgical skill, and it is not a claim about any individual surgeon. Treat it as a reason to get a second quote closer to home, not as a reason to accept a lesser credential. The full price index shows every procedure band by band.

Long Island towns we cover

Nassau County

Woodbury

The OLI corridor — closest substitute for Manhattan, highest Long Island prices

Great Neck

Classic private-practice corridor, Port Washington border

Mineola

Hospital-anchored private practice around Winthrop

Roslyn

High-income corridor, office-based practices common

Garden City

Garden City Park and surrounding enclaves

Massapequa

South Nassau, high caseload per surgeon

Rockville Centre

South Nassau, LIRR-accessible to Penn Station

Suffolk County

Stony Brook

University Hospital corridor, academic-affiliated

Smithtown

Central Suffolk, St. Joseph Hospital

Huntington

Long Island’s largest population centre

Commack

Central Suffolk, high private-practice density

Patchogue

South Suffolk, including Shirley and Mastic

Riverhead

East end, including Westhampton and Southampton

Port Jefferson

East end, St. Joseph Hospital

Long Island hospitals with plastic surgery privileges

Hospitals in Nassau and Suffolk where plastic surgery is routinely performed. Privilege is granted to a named surgeon by a hospital credentialing committee, so it is a stronger signal than a business address — but it is also individual and it changes.
HospitalCounty
Glen Cove HospitalNassau
Plainview Hospital (Northwell)Nassau
North Shore University HospitalNassau
Winthrop University HospitalNassau
St. Francis Hospital & Heart CenterNassau
Stony Brook University HospitalSuffolk
St. Joseph HospitalSuffolk
South Shore University HospitalSuffolk
How to check it yourself. Ask the practice to name the facility where your procedure will actually be performed, then call that hospital's medical staff office and ask whether the surgeon holds active privileges in plastic surgery. Privileges are surgeon-specific, not granted to the practice, and a surgeon can hold them at one hospital and not another. If the answer is that everything is done in the office, that is a normal arrangement — ask whether the suite is AAAASF or JCI accredited instead.
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Face Surgery

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$4,000–$10,500all-in Recovery5-10 days

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$7,000–$14,000all-in Recovery7-14 days

Best facelift & neck lift surgeons NYC & Long Island

$12,000–$25,000all-in Recovery10-14 days

Best facial fat grafting surgeons NYC & Long Island

$3,500–$6,000all-in Recovery4-7 days

Best facial feminization surgery surgeons NYC & Long Island

$26,000–$52,000all-in Recovery3-6 weeks

Best lip augmentation surgeons NYC & Long Island

$600–$2,400all-in RecoveryNone for filler; 1 week for a lip lift

Best lip silicone removal surgeons NYC & Long Island

$2,800–$13,000all-in Recovery1-2 weeks

Nose Surgery

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$7,000–$13,000all-in Recovery7-10 days

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$650–$1,200all-in RecoveryNone, same day

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$7,000–$42,000all-in Recovery1-2 weeks

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$10,000–$22,000all-in Recovery7-10 days

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$6,500–$12,000all-in Recovery7-10 days

Breast Surgery

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$5,000–$10,000all-in Recovery5-7 days

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$3,500–$12,000all-in Recovery3-7 days

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Body Surgery

Best brachioplasty surgeons NYC & Long Island

$8,500–$12,000all-in Recovery2-5 days

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$9,000–$19,000all-in Recovery5-10 days

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$4,500–$11,000all-in Recovery3-7 days

Best liposuction surgeons NYC & Long Island

$3,500–$13,000all-in Recovery3-5 days

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$16,000–$22,000all-in Recovery2 weeks

Best thigh lift surgeons NYC & Long Island

$8,500–$15,000all-in Recovery4-7 days

Best tummy tuck surgeons NYC & Long Island

$11,000–$15,000all-in Recovery7-10 days

Men's Surgery

Best gynecomastia surgery surgeons NYC & Long Island

$6,000–$10,000all-in Recovery3-7 days

Best male facial fat grafting surgeons NYC & Long Island

$1,800–$10,000all-in Recovery3-7 days

Best male liposuction surgeons NYC & Long Island

$4,000–$12,000all-in Recovery3-5 days

Best male rejuvenation surgeons NYC & Long Island

$100–$3,800all-in RecoveryNone for Botox; 5-10 days for ablative laser

Non-Surgical Wellness

Best botox, dysport & xeomin surgeons NYC & Long Island

$300–$1,000all-in RecoveryNone at all

Best chemical peels surgeons NYC & Long Island

$120–$4,000all-in RecoverySuperficial under 1 week; medium 3-7 days; deep about 2 weeks

Best dermal fillers surgeons NYC & Long Island

$650–$1,050all-in RecoveryNone, work the same day

Best laser hair removal surgeons NYC & Long Island

$80–$380all-in RecoveryNone, shower immediately

Best laser skin resurfacing surgeons NYC & Long Island

$450–$3,500all-in RecoveryFractional: same day; ablative: 5-10 days

Best microneedling surgeons NYC & Long Island

$220–$1,100all-in RecoveryStandard clears by day 5-7; RF minimal downtime

The five checks, applied to a Long Island practice

1

ABPS certification, verified by you

Search the surgeon's name at abplasticsurgery.org. ABFPRS/AAFPRS is the equivalent for face and nose work only. Note that the American Osteopathic Board of Surgery is a legitimate osteopathic board but is not ABMS-recognised — name the board, do not accept "board certified" unqualified.

2

Nassau or Suffolk hospital privileges

Stony Brook University Hospital, St. Joseph, South Shore, Glen Cove, Plainview, North Shore, Winthrop or St. Francis. A hospital committee has already vetted them.

3

Accredited facility

If the procedure is not in a hospital, the suite should be AAAASF or JCI accredited. Long Island has a high proportion of office-based operating, so ask.

4

The surgeon's name, in writing

Ask whether the surgeon you are consulting is the surgeon who operates. Get the answer on the consent form.

5

An itemised all-in quote

Surgeon, anesthesia, facility, testing, garments and follow-up, each separate. Ask for the facility fee by name — that is the line item that differs most from Manhattan.

Sources

Current as of Sep 28, 2026. We re-check pricing and credential claims on a rolling basis; if a source changes, the page changes.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. All-in costs sit roughly 10–25% below Manhattan because the facility fee, staffing and rent are lower, not because the surgeons are different. Many Long Island surgeons hold the same board certifications and operate in both markets. Compare credentials first, then use price as the tiebreaker. Manhattan surgical prices across our 34 procedures run $5,000–$30,000; see the price index for the side-by-side.

Volume concentrates in the Woodbury–Great Neck–Mineola corridor in Nassau, around Stony Brook and Smithtown in central Suffolk, and in Huntington in the east. These are the towns our 34 procedure pages cover by name.

Only for a specific surgeon you have chosen, not to save money — you will not save money in Manhattan. Follow-ups are the deciding factor: a full recovery involves appointments at 1 day, 1 week, 3 weeks, 6 weeks, 6 months and 12 months, and keeping those local is worth more than the price difference.

No. ABPS is a national standard and the verification tool is the same one used everywhere. The Long Island-specific point is that the osteopathic route (AOBS) is more common in this market than in Manhattan academic practices, and it is not an ABMS member board. Neither disqualifies anyone; name the board and check it yourself at abplasticsurgery.org.

The same medical credit lines work in Nassau and Suffolk as in Manhattan — CareCredit, Alphaeon, Prosper and PatientFi — and many practices offer an in-house payment plan or a 3–10% pay-in-full discount. Read the deferred-interest terms before you sign. Our financing guide covers the traps.

Disclosure. We are an independent information platform. We do not perform surgery, we are not a medical provider, and we do not sell surgeon placements on these pages. Where we name an individual surgeon it is because we verified the credential against a source we link, and we state the board exactly as the evidence does — including when it is not ABPS. Every credential here is something you can check yourself, free, at the source.

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