From reading his reviews, Dr. Lee has a great reputation for handling patients as an ENT. Congrats!
However, when it comes to managing a bad situation which occurred in his own business, he failed to meet an ethical and moral mark!
Never having met Dr. Lee, I had gone to his audiologist, Mary Meyers. She gave me hearing aids that were to be on a trial basis. I asked many times how much they would cost and was told not to worry about it because my insurance would cover it and she'd give me a good deal on them. Not only was it not up to her to make those final decisions, the hearing test that she gave me showed that I needed two hearing aids, when in fact, according to my own ENT, I needed only one aid and something called a cross-over device instead - which was much less expensive. Ms. Meyers gave me the aids at a much lower price because they were demo's and said billing wouldn't be a problem and it would cost me nothing out of pocket. She also mentioned that she'd be able to include the needed accessories as well for no out-of-pocket cost.
Well things didn't quite go that way when Dr. Lee got involved. He wanted me to pay a significant balance for the hearing aids that were already mine and which I'd been wearing for several months. Either that, or he wanted them back. Somehow my 'demo' hearing aids surprisingly became reclassified as 'new' hearing aids. After doing my research, I learned that the markup on hearing aids is incredibly ridiculous! - like 3000%. To manufacture them costs under $100 and then someone justifies them to be sold for $3000-$3500.
The only temporary peace of mind that I'd received during this entire process was from his office manager Tami. She realized the injustice of what happened and tried her hardest to correct the situation. Tami actually figured out a great way to resolve the issue and not only have me keep the hearing aids but get the accessories by billing my insurance again. After they received the extra money, Dr. Lee still refused to issue me the needed accessories. Shame on you Dr. Lee! For as much money as your practice brings in, to be so cheap, unkind, and have such poor patient service, is rather sad.
You may have reprimanded your audiologist to no longer make decisions on your behalf, but she still works for you and I'm left without the needed accessories to hear correctly, while you
collected the insurance money for them.
Thank You Tami for doing your best to try and resolved a bad situation. After watching you make many attempts over the course of 6 months to appeal to Dr. Lee's good nature, you failed to resolve this situation. Maybe working for another ENT might be in the cards for you.
In closing, I can say that although I don't have any personal experience with him as my ENT, Dr. Lee may be kind and caring to his patients, but a good and respectable businessman he is NOT!
That alone young man is why I write this review.
I would be more than happy to remove this review should you reconsider to your fair and kind senses and issue me the accessories that you've already received money for. Until then, this and my review on Google will stay. read more