Healthgrades

I placed an honest review on Healthgrades, regarding a real life experience with Dr. William **, out of Lewes, Delaware. (I hate using the term doctor, when referencing him -- so I'm being nice right now). At any rate, ** conducted a lumbar fusion that failed. Instead of listening to his patient, he suggested arthritis and injections. Turns out, his fusion failed and I had a fracture. Needless to say, I had to have a revision surgery (under one year) with more implants - because I begin showing signs of scoliosis, because I was leaning to help compensate for all of the pain I was enduring.

I went to Dr. Ruth with a Severe gout attack, I could not walk. Just a little history, I am a colon Cancer client. I have been having problems with Gout since 2008. I was seeing another Dr. that did not refer me for her services. I had to look her up in my network... The staff at Dr. Ruth office is Super nice, helpful and professional... When I was called back by this Wonderful lady Eva, but before her it was Kay That worked my insurance out so that I could see Dr. Ruth. I Highly recommend this rheumatologist. She's caring, concern and passionate, I only say all of this because I have visit many doctors because of my condition. And I truly would like to say Dr. Ruth ** please keep doing what you are doing, because you are making a different in your client's lives... By the way I can Walk without a cane!!! Dr. Ruth **, Rheumatologist Keep up the great Work.

I have been trying to have Healthgrades.com remove a review that was slanderous and false. Not only will they not remove it - they will not allow me to comment below the erroneous review. I looked them up on consumer reviews and found several complaints against this company. False information is damaging and is wrong. How they get away with this is criminal. There may be case a for a class action suit against a company, they need to do the right thing.

I saw there was a false post on the Healthgrades site and attempted to contact them to remove the post. They sent me an email informing me that they are not going to remove the post. This is fraudulent and false and definitely, want it removed due to it is not me who posted.

I just spent 30 minutes trying to leave a review for my physician. I attempted to backspace. It would change letters or completely remove them. Terrible lag time. I was about to finish my review and it kicked me out and totally deleted my comment. How can they represent our physicians without the proper equipment that allows us to do what needs to be done. As 35 yr employee in healthcare I am very aware of how the reviews work and what they mean to the providers. Healthgrades need to provide the proper software for their reviews or quit asking patients to complete them.

I actually had a practitioner post a fake 5 star review of herself posing as me & using my name. I can only imagine that the rest of her positive reviews are fake as well. This is someone that I would never rate as “5 stars” (quite the opposite) and the fact that she actually went and created a faux profile (using my name) totally creeps me out. It’s nice to have a healthcare review forum for clients/patients but I very much question the validity of what gets posted. As for “my” review, I’ve requested that it be removed. We shall see...

I have had 30-5 star reviews on Healthgrades, and as result have received additional patients, which I appreciate. Approximately a month ago, one of my patients gave me a 5-star review with comments. There was a typo in his comments concerning me, he used the word "experience"; it came out in my review as "sexperience". He has tried numerous times to have Healthgrades correct the error. No response or correction. I have tried several times to do the same. No response or correction. Both of us followed the Healthgrades protocol. It appears that Healthgrades has a major customer relations problem. Now, I am concerned, if I should receive a negative review, would I have a chance to report my side.

They allow people who may or may not be patients to leave reviews. They do not respond to emails asking slanderous false statements to be removed. If a patient or reviewer states the truth although hurtful this OK. However, why must lies, untruths and slander be tolerated?

This site posts fraudulent reviews. All the reviews they posted about my business were inaccurate, and half were from people who were never seen by me. They never check and make sure info is accurate. I tried to contacted them numerous times, without result. After 2 years, they send me an email stating it is my fault I get the bad reviews. I know multiple other physicians who have exactly same issue like me, and never posted a review here due to lack of time. They should be hold accountable for ruining so many doctors reputations. Can an investigation be open about the way they conduct this website?

Healthgrades will make it seem like you are calling the doctor's office, but really you are calling Healthgrades and they will take down a lot of information about you before transferring you to the doctor's office. I did this and they took down my address and age and insurance and when I was transferred to the doctor's office I was told they don't have any availability. Avoid.

A review about me was malicious but also could have easily been identified as bogus as I am an adult psychiatrist. The review claimed to be about a child. There was no way to immediately contact anyone. Also, studies indicate there is not a positive correlation between patient care and health grade scores. My sister, an attorney, (see review by Elizabeth in Venice) has also had such a hard time getting a positive review of her doctor (who had also been the victim of a bogus and libelous review) posted despite multiple attempts to submit the review and contacting Healthgrades. I was unaware of her experience and had the pleasant surprise of seeing her comments without any prior bias from her. In short, the site is Inaccurate and thus misleading. Although I was unhappy that I was misrepresented, I am far more concerned about patients being recklessly misled. First do no harm.

I have now reviewed a VERY bad physician three times on Healthgrades without receiving an email to confirm. I in fact wrote the review and it has never been posted. Now my friend had the same experience with the same physician and apparently Healthgrades is withholding these bad reviews for some reason. You cannot trust a website that picks and chooses the reviews they print and give horrible doctors decent grades.

When I questioned the validity of the one negative comment I got, and showed Healthgrades the background of it not being true, Healthgrades stuck to their policy and refused to take down the negative review. I asked to be removed from Healthgrades altogether, and they refused to do that also, saying that unless my NPI is canceled, they cannot do that. They are not easy to reach, not friendly and very unresponsive to dispute negative ratings.

All Brite Dentistry - Most people do not look forward to going to the DENTIST!!! Dr ** is friendly competent a wonderful person who puts the patient at ease. I have heard her working with children, while I was in another of her waiting rooms, I was so impressed I will be bringing my grandchildren to her. She cares, is very careful in learning all information. I trust her and would highly recommend her to anyone. I am honestly glad to have met her and have her in my family's life.

I tried to submit a review on three separate occasions to no avail. There was NO email sent to verify and no phone number or contact information for an inquiry. Is this website a scam - I would expect more professionalism regarding clinician content/recommendation!

Three times tried to write a review about a merchant and three times was told that I would receive email verification for its posting and three times I did not. I assume that this means that the reviews on this site are fabricated as I, a real customer of a medical provider, could not post a legitimate review.

I have been in practice as a psychologist for 25 years. (Ann **, Ph.D. in McKinney, TX). I have never had a negative review posted on any site until your anonymous posting about me dated June of 2017. The reviewer mentions Manassas, Virginia. I have never seen or known anyone from Virginia. I have been experiencing a legal issue with an unstable individual (not a patient) who is being investigated for harassment and threats on my life. I suspect this 'review' is connected to that individual.

Heathgrades on this site I don't know how many times nothing was accomplished. All they do is give you a list of doctors you already know about so I don't know why they're in business. They have no business ethics at all. You post something and all of a sudden you go back in and it's changed. Most likely on doctors and their facilities. I don't know who is behind this site or business. The people post and because to complain. Shouldn't it be investigated? That's the reason for sites like this. I think people need to be heard and not looked over so I will not use this site again. It does absolutely nothing.

I currently have a 3.9 star rating. So, you might say, why am I complaining? That's because I have two very negative reviews, one of which was recently mentioned to me by an attorney as the reason he was reluctant to refer a client to me. This leads me the following: I have no idea who these so called reviews come from. Healthgrades also has no idea where these reviews come from. Any person in the world can claim they are a patient of mine and say anything they want. There is no verification process! Due to HIPAA regulations, I couldn't even actually respond if I did know who these people who wrote the negative reviews are. I have only been able to make a broad generic response, but the damage is already done with the negative review.

This is the worst website ever, they do allow people to place reviews online without verifying the information if accurate or not. I called them to dispute an inaccurate review placed by an unhappy patient, which was discharged from our practice for non payment and bad behavior, they would not even talk to me, could not verify the patient review, nor they had a proof it is accurate. Same happened to my other colleagues and is hard to understand how this company is still in business. They should be taken to court for destroying physicians' businesses and posting lies on their website, without verifying the information, or having a proof is accurate.

How is this website even legal? Promoting defamation and one of the most unethical and biased ways in reviewing a physician. Patients I haven't seen making a complaint. How is this website allowed to gather personal information such as listing a physician's age. A class action lawsuit needs to be started to put an end to such illegal activity.

I am an Occupational Therapist who doesn't own a practice anywhere. Somehow this awful place got ahold of an NPI that was given to me by a contract company over 10 yrs ago (2005). Since then I don't have an NPI anymore. Now, my name comes to the top of Google search with bad reviews for people I have never seen (probably a disgruntled boyfriend). Healthgrades refuses to remove my name, address, ph no. What a terrible rotten service. Follow the money, this organization is probably run by George Soros or some other evil philanthropist.

Healthgrades is a completely unethical and biased website. I don't understand what they get from it but for some reason they only published a horrible comment about my physician and when I read the comment, I added my own complimentary comment which was NOT published. I wrote to them and a person by the name of Armando wrote back to say that they WERE properly recorded! I kept checking and they were NEVER published! That was October 2016 and to this day, my comment has not appeared.

I have been going to Dr. ** for a few years now. I believe he shows much concern for his patients. He will explain fully and shows compassion for his patients. I will continue with his service and believe he will strive to find the solution to my and any other patients problems.

Healthgrades' Board justifies their data capture policy by stating that providers' information is openly populated on the net. That part is true. Evidently, in their view, this gives them free license to vacuum up providers' names and create a site that makes money from our intellectual property from a variety of revenue streams. Great business strategy, horrible ethics. What their policy can never justify is their strategy of coupling a data sweep with unvetted customer reviews.

I left a positive review for my original doctor who has retired and I left a negative review for the doctor that replaced him. My positive review was never uploaded and my negative review was changed to a 3 star review.

Healthgrades is dishonest and unfair. We never signed up and now receive negative reviews from people who are NOT our patients and we have no way of responding. We called the customer service line and they said they could not take these bogus reviews done. Also, this website allows disgruntled patients to write whatever they want, even if it's untrue without being challenged, which reflects negatively to my practice. I pay for my own service, Demand Force which allows us to always address any negative thoughts or comments. I don't want my practice listed on this website, it's unfair and dishonest. The reviews are bogus and many are not true. Please address this issue. I am not the only doctor that feels this way.

Will not let you leave a positive review or make corrections on reviews, even after exhausted attempts to do so. I am aware that most internet reviews are negative, because most people only post reviews when things don't work out for them.

My business never got reviewed before this individual began to leave slanderous and blatantly false comments that could negatively affect my business. The reviews from healthgrades.com also managed to show up on the top whenever a google search is done for my business. It all started when I sent a delinquent payment case to collection and had to go to court twice to resolve the issue. All the bad reviews (with 1 star) I got since seem to be posted by the same person even though different names were used and vicious and baseless in the nature. All the reviews have grammatical errors, which also indicates they could be posted by a same individual.

They are using the bad reviews to get doctors to try and offset them by getting more people to sign up, then they apparently sell the email addresses to marketers. The positive reviews are often left out, which many of my patients have told me and others have complained about this here. They don't care what people say on this site, but they apparently do resolve complaints through the Better Business Bureau: www.bbb.org. I suggest that all of the providers who have complained here post their views on the BBB website and file a complaint there. The patients can likewise file complaints for false advertising because they are relying on these websites to find providers and they are getting skewed results that may be leading away from perfectly good health care professionals just so Healthgrades can make a quick buck from their email addresses.