I was a patient of Hands-On-Care referred by my hand surgeon. This place looks, feels and acts like a suburban nail saloon, more depressing than a nursing home. Here's why:
1- No privacy whatsoever: patients are treated around very closely placed small tables in a single room.
2- Old poorly maintained facility: pieces of ceiling tiles that broke off are covered with plasticky covers, the TV runs in full loop depressing old TV shows, they have a tiny Google Mini speaker to play music with its mesh dirty and ripped off. I know, small details: but sum them together and you get a picture. Their satellite office however is much better: smaller & newer.
3- Absurd to find time slots: Therapists are few and understaffed: unless you book at least 2 weeks ahead, you will miss your appointment frequency (and for me it was important as my Doctor asked me to be seen twice a week).
4- When I was under their care, towards end of 2022, they were oddly fixated with Covid: they ask you to wash your hands in a sink, yet yet theyl let you touch things on the floor (for exercises like stretching) and then NOT ask you to wash your hands again.
5- You get a different Therapist most of the time. Each will print and give you a bunch of different home exercises. If I did them all, I'd spend well over 1hr/day. No single constant treatment course to stick to, almost never the same Therapist that would accurately track me and my progress. They took some initial measurements on first day of treatment, but never did take the same measurements at the end to compare for any progress.
6- Technically mine were 1hr appointments. In practice they always started late, then in between treatment phases I'd be left waiting for as long as 20min because my Therapist was multitasking on other patients and rushing to ask interns running around to do things for them (and even explain to them on the fly since most of the times interns did not seem to have done that before!!).
7- Even though my Doctor shared with them my wrist problem (a tendonitis) and course of treatment, they told me TWICE they thought I had a broken wrist. I had to correct them twice, to avoid the wrong treatment being made.
8- They let me fill out an entire new patient module at the beginning, just to tell me they never received it (even though I showed them a confirmation email).
9- They never sent initial/final evaluation report to my Doctor even if they told me they did.
10- I noticed expiration dates well past due on stickers applied on machines they used on me for ultrasound and electrical stimulation, likely stickers that reflect their maintenance/calibration.
11- They try to sell you things with an absurd markup (example: almost 40$ for muscle tape). Ask them what they think you need and definitely shop by yourself elsewhere.
12- They bill insurance like CRAZY (about $5,500 to my insurance, then negotiated to little over $3,300 for 10 visits). And, even if you have GREAT insurance, some things they decide to bill to YOU directly, such as "Ionto patches" (which were used during some some visits, almost 39$ per patch!).
13- Their online payment system is crap (after you pay for copay, you can't find any longer a detail of the charges you just paid). I had to explicitly ask where to go pay my copays because nobody would tell me otherwise.
14- They overcharged me for copay. After calling/emailing/escalating to my Health Insurance Provider (this took almost 3 MONTHS!) the refunded me through check. Their billing department is a nightmare to get in touch with and an Indian call center (they promise to call you back and never do).
15- Condescending behavior by the management in the office is also part of the issue (14-) above.
16- Very few terapist, with high turnover, always understaffed. Staff felt decently well prepared but too much turnover even for my care.
17- They did not include in the treatment laser because they said since it wasn't prescribed by my Doctor I would have paid out of pocket for it. I trusted them, just to see later in my Doctor referral he DID include it! read more