I fully agree, the Staff and Doctors? are incompetent. First of all you can not contact anyone ever. You call in, you sit on hold forever. If your lucky, you can leave a message that will never be listened to. Your calls will not be returned. Second. The patient portal does not work. First scheduled appointment, took 2 weeks to get one. I show up and the appointment was changed to the day before. Would i like to reschedule? So at this time I went to a different physician. Second time, I was told this guy was a good doctor so thought I would give them one more chance. This turned into a nightmare as well. So took forever to get the appointment. So I tried calling in to verify my appointment and could never reach anyone on the phone and the portal does not work. I thought maybe the business had shut down. No, just a lazy staff and a non working patient portal and no means of contacting anyone. So I show up, the parking lot is very very steep, no parking on flat land. Great spot for a doctors office? waited an hour before I saw anyone, a girl came in a did an ekg, she did her part. So then I waited another hour to see the so called doctor. He come in does a 10 sec ck up thing, then starts asking questions. This is where things got uncomfortable and strange. He asked me several questions about drugs, but kept asking about cocaine over and over. Then in the middle of the exam, he sits in a chair, put his feet up in another chair and starts leaving voicemails that had nothing to do with my case, exam, ??? He get off the phone and starts asking the same questions again. Anyway I did not feel comfortable, I did not feel like I was seen by a physician of any kind. I felt like, he thought he new everything before it even happened, what I would say before I said it. So he did not feel the need to pay attention or even listen to the facts, because he a so called doctor and knows all. I tried for months to report the doctors actions during the exam, but no one would receive my call or return them. Still have not to this day.
So shady business practices.
You get billed - You try to pay bill but can not.
You try to login to the portal, it does not work.
You click on pay my bill, You cant it does not work.
You click pay by phone, you cant no one answers the phone ever.
Try to login on to Athena, you cant does not work.
You could mail in a check I suppose, but is anyone there to get the mail? I don't trust them enough to provide them the information on my check. Ie routing and account. Lack of faith and trust
At one time, I looked them up on the BBB and used a number on there to contact someone for help. They since removed all contact information off of the BBB site and they do not even belong to the BBB, Surprised?
To all of you who have had the misfortune, I feel your pain. When you having medical issues and don't feel well you just don't need this kind of lack of caring or care.
Take notes, create a phone log. a visit log. Note everything. This is for your protection.
If you have been billed. Forget trying to pay them directly. Contact your insurance provider. My insurance provider provides me a way to pay the bill thru their website. I trust this more than any other method. I would not trust Ft Worth Heart with your checking information.
Doctors are not gods, even though some think they are. Just like mechanics, cooks, engineers, etc. There are good ones and there are bad ones. If you don't feel comfortable, don't walk - run.
Also Contact a patient advocate at Texas Health 817-250-2154
Do I think my complaint will do anything, probably not. But if enough people complain, maybe then. You could save a life! read more