Do not go here, that's the best advice I could give anyone in pain. He treated me like trash. My visit started over 20 mins late. The first thing he said when he walked in the room was a whisper over
His right shoulder to a student following him, "thank God she's wearing a ring" because I had my 2 year old with me and I look young. If I hadn't been in so much pain I would have walked out. Then he sent me for X-rays within minutes. Came back and he scanned my X-ray and literally said "I don't know what's going on". I said how do I find out. He referred me to a MRI which needs a pre-auth and can take weeks. Meanwhile my right pointer finger is stuck in a hook position, won't move and is excruciating. I told him it had been that way for weeks, but I was hoping it would get better, the pain drove me into his office instead of my usual hand doctor in Bellevue. I asked him if he could give me a brace or something, he said "no, I don't know what's wrong", I said can you give me something stronger then Ibuprofen in the meantime? He reacted like I was a pill popping drug addict. I offered to have him call my other doctors I have never been prescribed pain pills except after having my kids and he refused to give me anything to help. I asked him if I should ice or heat to help he replied he couldn't tell me. After all that he wrote in his request for my MRI to the insurance company that my symptoms were within 2 weeks, after I told him it had almost been 6 since the pain started. The insurance company denied my
MRI for the symptoms not being present for more then 2 weeks. When I called his office to ask them to resend with the correct information so I could get my MRI they said I would have to make another appointment, pay for another visit and have him rewrite it. Seriously? If he has listened and cared more about my ailment then judging if I had a ring on with a two year old maybe he would have done his job. After all this I spent over a year arguing with the billing department that I would pay for the X-rays, but not the visit because I didn't receive services and he insulted me. I have it all recorded and noted with when they said they would call me back, only one person ever called back. I surprised the head of the orthopedic billing office and showed up for a face to face to explain everything so they understood and they just kept saying they'd call me back. Every answer I got was "the doctor says he gave services and you can access his notes, free of charge". So he said she said and they don't care what she says. After the face to face I was hopeful and was told they would call me back, two months later no call and I receive a letter from collections with a letter from the he's of billing once again stating they asked the doctor and he said he did treat me so too bad.
Another interesting factor is they billed for a 45 minute visit when I was seen less then 15. I filed a complaint with the insurance company. I'm going to be filing a complaint with the medical bar and the Washington State Health Department. The funny thing is when you go to their website it states "treating you like family", furthest from the truth. I work in insurance, have worked in the ER, hospital and doctors offices, this is the worst group I've ever encountered. read more