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Washington
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Company uses Healthcare provider info without provider consent to open provider profiles where misleading and false information can be made by anyone towards the provider. Ther is no fact check if who left the review is an actual patient and is done of an anonymous profile which opens door to anyone who wants to bully or harm the doctor. Then there is no support to remove the review even if flagged and provider reached out to inform that is a false review, concern for stalking etc.

Date of experience: January 31, 2025
Texas
0 reviews
2 helpful votes
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My organization has had a call with them to discuss and demonstrate, but the situation has only gotten worse - all edits and changes that we make to our practice don't "stick" overnight and we have wasted our time. No response to our emails to customer support are extremely frustrating. Does this mean that they will go out of business soon?

Date of experience: January 20, 2022
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Health Grades Reviews is biased and will delete reviews without just cause. I have posted numerous reports of negligent and unconciounable practices by Sutter Health, it's doctors, supervisors, management, and executives and the posted comments are removed. Don't trust them. They apparently filter comments based on pressure by the people/places being reported.

Date of experience: July 27, 2024
Virginia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Information listed on HealthGrades is not accurate and usually posted without the providers consent. Use public health records to set up "ghost" profiles and allows anyone who sets up an account to create fake review regardless. Sites like HealthGrades have a reckless disregard for ensuring honest and accurate information is being to the public.

Date of experience: August 11, 2022
Maryland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Dr. Svestks
June 13, 2024

Dr. Svestks listens to you explains exactly what he's doing and makes sure you understand the whole procedure he has a wonderful bedside manner and is very kind and caring. I had the best experience with him and Fair oaks hospital I have ever had and I have had a lot. So if you are looking for a general surgeon who is awesome in the hernia field, look no further than Dr. Svestks

Date of experience: June 12, 2024
New York
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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It used to be that you could write a review on health grades, good or bad, about a doctor you saw. Health grades now rejects all negative reviews, including the star review. It only posts positive reviews. I used to use Healthgrades frequently. I now do not consider it a reliable resource and will no longer use it.

Date of experience: April 15, 2022
District of Columbia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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FAKE
May 31, 2021

Healthgrades
Does not show bad reviews of certain Doctors. For example, I consulted a very bad Dr. and wrote a review. Eventho' I confirmed my email address as required, the review does not appear. Only the 4 "good" reviews can be accessed. The 3 "bad" reviews cannot be read. This is a disservice to people looking for good physicians. Had I known this Dr. was as bad as he was, I never would've have gone to him.
SHAME on Healthgrades.

Date of experience: May 31, 2021
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Dr Joseph Ricotta
January 6, 2022

Dr Joseph Ricotta performed a difficult procedure on my 99% clogged carotid artery. I am an 85 year old male and extremely grateful that Dr Ricotta was highly recommended to me by my cardiologist. Many surgeons would have been reluctant to attempt this risky surgery because of the high percentage of plaque. He is pleasant and explained the TCAR procedure thoroughly. He is a pioneer on this method. I will be back on the tennis courts in about a month. Max Tuchman

Date of experience: January 5, 2022
Illinois
6 reviews
15 helpful votes
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I tried so many times in the last couple of days to write an honest review based on the unfortunate experience I had with this first time visit primary doctor but I couldn't because Healthgrades stop my review every time, was like frozen even thou I never used any offensive words, just facts. Is like we're in North Korea or one of those kinds of countries to stop freedom of speech. Who's this Healthgrades, when I called, they ask for $ 1 fee, I guess that's all about, money, I won't mind paying but I don't want them to have my credit card numbers. Don't trust them at all.

Date of experience: August 31, 2022
New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Healthgrades.com removes real people's reviews to protect bad doctors! Reviews will magically disappear or re-appear and ratings will change on the fly mostly to favor doctors at the cost of patients, always at the cost of patients. That should tell you a lot about the reliability of Heathgrades.com's ratings and reviews.

Date of experience: October 5, 2021
Washington
1 review
15 helpful votes
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Bogus, unverified information. Healthgrades appears to be baiting medical providers by publishing contrived negative reviews and then calling the doctor to tell them how they can improve their ratings, which costs money. Shady!

Date of experience: January 30, 2014
District of Columbia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Healthgrades Scam
July 24, 2017

I agree with another post on here regarding HG. There is no way to review other than writing one. OK. That's not so bad. Unless they only publish positive reviews and bump the stars up no matter what. It's simply fake and created to fool patients and benefit doctors.

Date of experience: July 24, 2017
Oklahoma
16 reviews
50 helpful votes
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I'm a 100% service connected disabled veteran and wrote a review about a bad exam/encounter with a VA psychologist who is also in private practice. I didn't use foul language or call him names, it took a long time to write the " story," as they say: " We want to hear your story". Apparently not. Do they only want positive stories? You won't get the real truth from these people. Don't waste your time.

Date of experience: August 13, 2015
New York
1 review
13 helpful votes
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I have had bad experiences with them too that's why clinicians as a group should ignore healthgrades. Instead we can create our own community where we can respond to reviews and update our own listing page. Healthgrades has a LOT of inaccurate information so we should start using a site like www.Guide.MD where on guide.md we can actually control or listing and answer patients and let them make free online appointments and post or own hours, office address and phone number and even put pictures of your practice up all at zero cost.

Date of experience: December 28, 2013
Georgia
3 reviews
12 helpful votes
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Scam!
December 7, 2017

Stay away from Healthgrades! Look at their own 1.5 star rating from Consumer Affairs. I wish I did before signing up with them.

They are unfriendly and unresponsive to disputing negative reviews. My business was hurt by a false and negative review. Even when I showed them the facts, Healthgrades refused to take down the negative comment. It is not fair to publish a hate mail review and support the disgruntled customer over unfounded bias and tarnish the reputation of a seasoned doctor.

Please do not go near Healthgrades. They are horrible.

Date of experience: December 7, 2017
Florida
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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One Homecare Solutions is the worst company that provides supplies to their patients. It is very difficult to place an order, extremely difficult to reach a supervisor or a manager. Supplies that were needed for a procedure arrive after the procedure was performed, the appliances they provide are of the low end quality.
Their representatives at the call center are not well trained, they just read the script without actually paying attention to the patients' problems, their command of English language is very poor.
No, I DO NOT like ONE HOMECARE SOLUTIONS in Florida!

Date of experience: September 2, 2021
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I followed Dr. Van & the PT instructions plus just a little more. If I started to hurt I informed them and would cut back. When in water therapy I walked the full hour. I did not stop to visit or rest. At three weeks I started walking up the stairs & then up and down, At 6 weeks I was hitting golf balls. At eight weeks I walked over 1 mile on the golf course.
I don't know anything more important than following the directions given by your doctor & PT

Date of experience: October 18, 2015
Michigan
1 review
6 helpful votes
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This website is full of misinformation, outdated information. I was recently trying to look for a well rated doctor. It turned out tha I was misinformed. The website claims that the doctor got his degree from a respected medical school in US. It turns out tha he received his degree from Damascus! You can go in to rate anyone you want. There is no quality control of any kind. So a doctor can get his or her friends to put a high rating for himself or herself. Therefore, the rating is entirely unreliable. Stay away from this website.

Date of experience: August 17, 2010
Connecticut
1 review
1 helpful vote
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A person who has never been a patient of mine posted two vicious and personal reviews on Healthgrades. I flagged this and they responded in one day telling me the posts met their guidelines and remain on their site!

Date of experience: August 30, 2019
Arkansas
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I work for a doctor and was asked to remove misinformation about our doctor in regards to where he trained and how old he is. Healthgrades had our doctor listed as about 75 years old. It was nearly impossible to get this information removed. Also, we had a disgruntled employee whom we all wanted to leave. This employee went on healthgrades and rated our doctor poorly because she was mad about losing her job. Healthgrades does not even verify if anyone is really a patient who rates the doctors. It is a farce.

Date of experience: May 21, 2013

Overview

HealthGrades has a rating of 2.2 stars from 137 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with HealthGrades most frequently mention and email address. HealthGrades ranks 4th among Doctors sites.

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