If I could give less than 1 star, I would. Avoid at all costs. I went here because I had a painful callous on my foot that would not go away. I paid my $40 specialist co-pay (BCBS of TX insurance), and before the doctor saw me, the nurse had me sign another form promising to pay any extra it might cost to remove the callous, which she said could be as much as $65. Fine, I signed. Doc came in, cut away the callous, dabbed the underlying plantar wart (which had been causing the callous unbeknownst to me) with some stuff on a q-tip, and the nurse slapped a bandaid on it. The doctor was super nice, but my total time with him was less than 5 minutes. As I left they had me make another appointment to follow up in 2 weeks. I went back in 2 weeks, another $40 co-pay, and it was an exact repeat of the first visit; less than 5 minutes, doc trims callous, applies medicine with q-tip, bandaid, and I'm done. Fine. I go up front and they want me to make a THIRD appointment -- but first -- "ma'am, you have an outstanding balance of $160+ that you need to pay." I have WHAT?! That's right, my insurance covered almost NONE of the $175 SURGICAL FEE. That's on top of the doctor visit fee of $140. Folks I understand the doc probably has some big-time student loans to pay off, but $175 for "surgery" that consisted of trimming a callous and using a q-tip?! And I was not told any of this until AFTER I had racked up another visit with the same amounts charged AGAIN. I just got the second bill today -- bringing my total for getting rid of a callous and a plantar wart -- which I could have taken care of myself with a $5 bottle of wart remover, had I known -- FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS OUT OF MY POCKET (two $40 co-pays and two $160+ bills). To add insult to injury, when I saw the statement from my insurance, I found out that it wasn't even billed by "Waco Foot and Ankle". It was billed by Dr. Kyle Ballew -- the podiatrist I saw last year and disliked so much that I went out of my way to find "another" podiatry practice to visit -- thus, Waco Foot and Ankle -- which I now know must be owned by Dr. Ballew as well. I will never go back again and will direct others away from this place too. read more