Dr. Kane came highly recommended to us from Nextdoor, a neighborhood website, when we moved here a little over a year ago. We found him to be a wonderful doctor. In April, while in the process of switching from Medicare to my husband's policy, I was unable to see any of my specialists at their cash rates, so I scheduled a cash appt with Robin, the front office receptionist, and explained why I was coming in and why I needed to pay cash, and that I would let her know at the end of the appeal which insurance she could bill for the visit (the appeal was supposed to take about two weeks, but ended up taking over three months, and I lost). When I arrived for my cash appt, the nurse asked why I was being seen, and I told her the same things I had told Robin - chronic headaches that were getting worse, worsening insomnia, and increasing stress, partly due to the nightmare I was going through with Medicare, which wouldn't cover anything, including things they used to cover prior to 2016. He asked what my specialist prescribed for my anxiety, I told him Xanax ER, i mg in the morning and .5 mg in the evening. He told me he wanted me to take Trazadone for sleep. I told him I didn't want to take it, as it's a psychotropic, and I had spent 20+ years on multiple psychotropics for a diagnosis that was incorrect, and now am limited on what meds work and don't work. His reply - it's not addictive, and it will help me sleep. He didn't want to prescribe anything for my headaches before reviewing the CT scan my pain mgmt dr (who he referred me to) had recently done. Since it was a Friday, I had to wait till Monday to hear back. In the meantime, he called in tht Trazadone, but not the Xanax ER, so I called and spoke to his nurse. When I picked up my prescriptions, he had called in regular Xanax, 1 mg, twice a day. It didn't do anything - I took one, got no relief, never took another. On Monday, his nurse called and said the CT didn't show anything, so I asked if he could call in a prescription for Tizanidine, a muscle relaxant, because I've taken it before and it helps, but it's not in Medicare's formulary so they will only cover Flexeril, which does nothing. Since I'm now paying cash, it doesn't matter that Medicare won't approve it. I also pointed out that he called in a wrong prescription for the Xanax. At this point, I am told I am not even allowed to make a follow-up appointment with him regarding these issues, "he isn't going to give you any more drugs!" by the front office receptionist, Robin. She refused to let me make an appointment. So I wrote a letter to Dr. Kane, explaining all that had happened. My husband persuaded me to wait till he saw him the end of the following week, and he would discuss it with him. He was being seen because the cholesterol medicine and Nexium he was prescribed was giving him memory loss, and he was concerned. So when he saw Dr. Kane, because of the memory loss, he forgot what he wsa supposed to talk to him about, so he just said "Lisa regrets what happened." Dr. Kane appparently had no idea what he was talking about, so I had him take the letter and the unused prescriptions to his office. He left the letter on Robin's desk, but not the medications, as the reception area is shared by four offices. He called later that day to see if the doctor had had a chance to read the letter, and was rudely told by Robin that Dr. Kane couldn't speak to him about this. My husband took this to mean because of HIPAA, so I went into the office the next day to add his name to my paperwork so they could speak legally. Robin was rude, made me wait five minutes before coming back and telling me my husband's name is already on the form. She wouldn't let me make an appointment, wouldn't look in the bottles which showed I hadn't taken the pills, and basically accused me at full volume of trying to pick a fight, humiliating me in public. Normally, Dr. Kane spends as much time as is needed, so Kirk made another appointment to get his medications changed, and when Dr. Kane came into the exam room, he asked if the doctor had had a chance to read my letter. Dr. Kane gave him three minutes, told him he was too busy to discuss it, and left. When I received my letter from Social Security stating I had lost my appeal, I called Robin and asked that she please bill Medicare for my cash visit, and was rudely told that she would "discuss" it with the bookkeeper, who won't be in until Thursday (today is Monday). I then called Anthem Medi Blue, who my insurance was with, and filed a grievance against Dr. Kane and Robin, by name, for patient abandonment, and told the girl at Anthem I needed them to intervene to get my refund, because I'm pretty sure if I hold my breath waiting for a call on Thursday, I'll have expired from anoxia before I see my $55 refund for that visit. What used to be a great doctor has, in my opinion as a nurse, become just one more quack, less interested in the welfare of his patients as in his staff members. read more