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Emory Clinic
2 reviews for Emory Clinic
The doctors at the Emory Clinic are good in person, but they are awful when it comes to billing, and they order ridiculous unnecessary tests just to get more money. First, they typically give the wrong codes to the insurance companies and then come after you with threats of collection.
One doctor billed me $1000 for some procedure I didn't even know he was going to do (he didn't tell me until afterwards), and then when the insurance company only paid him the agreed-upon amount of $100, the billing department tried to change the codes and tell me I was responsible for all of it because my insurance would not pay for it.
Oddly enough, my insurance company sided with me and threatened litigation against Emory. Hoe often do insurance companies side with patients?? That should how you how dysfunctional Emory is. Emory even tried to come after me for a bill they had forgotten to submit which was 9 months old. When I told them I had lost my job and could not currently pay, they told me that wasn't their problem, and they would continue to come after me even if I went bankrupt.
The moral: the doctors there may seem great, but beware of having to spend hours and days fighting their seemingly-criminal billing department, and beware of doctors ordering unnecessary, expensive tests (and miscoding them on purpose!)
I would advocate going to any other hospitals or practices over Emory and making sure their billing departments are filled with helpful people.
I go to the Neurology portion of the Emory Clinic. I have quite possibly the stupidist neurological disorder-- Hemiplegic Migraines. Basically that means that I get horrible headaches and the left side of my body goes numb, and I have to take a crap-load of medicines for the rest of my life. Dr. Greg Esper is my neurologist, and I really like him. I transferred to him from Dekalb Med Center Neurology, and he immediately got me off 5 of the 10 different medicines I was taking without negative consequences. He's kinda a fast talkin' Yankee, but he's smart and thorough and funny. Only advice: if you think you might need to see a neurologist, go ahead and make the appointment now. It'll be a while.
