Our son was four days old when our lactation consultant referred us for a tongue/lip tie revision. I called Green Apple and was told they did not have available appointments for two days. When I asked to please be put on a waiting list, should someone cancel their appointment sooner than two days out, the receptionist suddenly realized(?) that they were free all that afternoon and I could come in that day if I'd like and could even have my pick of appointment times. I was immediately unnerved to know that had I not pressed the importance of getting an appointment ASAP, they would have just put me off for two days.
I discussed insurance questions over the phone with her prior to coming in for our appointment.
When we arrived, we were brought to a room by an assistant (hygienist?). She had my intake paperwork in front of her and kept incorrectly reading it back to us. I'm not sure why they even had us fill out the diagnostic forms if we were going to just have to verbally repeat it all back to an incompetent assistant who couldn't enter it into the computer correctly for the life of her.
When Dr. Guerrero arrived, she was fantastic and very professional. She had her assistant record via an iPad while she pinpointed the frenulum ties in our baby's mouth. Of course, with the pulling on his lip and tongue, our baby started screaming. After about two minutes it was over, and we were comforting our baby, only to have the assistant announce that, oops, she'd forgotten to press record! She said this as though it was a hilarious mistake we'd all be amused by. Even Dr. Guerrero was a little irritated to have to redo the stressful video recording of the ties on a days-old baby when it should have just been done correctly the first time.
The actual procedure was done quickly and when we went to checkout, were told that they actually wouldn't file with insurance for us - contrary to everything I was told on the phone. I was extremely frustrated to find out that the $575 was due immediately when I had been previously told otherwise.
I had asked Dr. Guerrero if we could please take home instructions on how to properly exercise the wounds as she'd shown us (I was so sleep deprived I was afraid I'd forget all she'd told us!) and when I asked the front desk girl for these printouts, she had no clue what I was talking about and said there was no such information for me to take home.
When we called to set up our follow up as requested by Dr. G, the receptionist informed us that we could only have a 2 or 3pm appointment time, regardless of the day of the week or (non)immediacy of the appointment. When I let her know it was too difficult for my husband to get off work at that time, she told me there was nothing she could do and she couldn't schedule me for an earlier or later time because those was the only times they did these appointments. I definitely did not get the vibe that this office cared much about actually seeing my son for his follow up; regardless of how lenient I was on days/times (any day of the week! Any week! Any time before noon was fine! Anytime after 3:30pm was fine! There was just a tiny window of the day that was too hard for us to make do), she refused to schedule me outside of the 2pm or 3pm appointment time.
We loved Dr. Guerrero and had a great experience with her, but absolutely believe that her staff could use more training in customer service and efficiency. When you're dealing with littles (sometimes just days old) giving proper information the first time, and doing a job correctly the first time, goes a long way in keeping patients happy. read more