Anil A. Yakhmi's Online Review Report Card

Wonderful doctor. Helped me live quality of life . Thank you Alicia McKenney

Honestly after seeing these reviews I was very very nervous to have a procedure done with Dr. Yakhmi. I was referred to his office and decided to just trust my doctors referral. After having both an Endo and a colonoscopy performed under sedation, my husband met with him and had nothing but good things to say about his informative talk with the doctor after I was done. He answered all my husband's questions and made sure to go over post care and follow up instructions. Overall, I had a much better experience than the reviews here would indicate.

Terrible..... Went in for results. In and out in to fast. Didn't answer questions and was absolutely NO HELP!!!!! Find another doctor!!!

Polite. Efficient. Great office staff.

Terrible. Just don’t even go. He has zero bedside manner and doesn’t seem to care about his patients. No help in figuring out the problem.

We are a family of 5 where the recession and inflation is dramatically hitting. I was asked by my General Practitioner to have services performed by Dr. Yakhmi at Riverview Hospital. I explained to the scheduler my families financial situation and needing it to be affordable and or I could not do the procedure. I was assured Riverview would be the affordable solution. All parties involved had over a week to call to acquire insurance coverage and out of pocket expenses to the patient. I received a "pre procedure" letter stating my insurance would cover the procedure however likely not the 100% of pathology. When arriving for the procedure, the same verbiage was on the forms provided to me and sent home with me. It was to my surprise that Riverview Health charged $10,000 for no more then 2 hours for a simple procedure (my arrival to departure). Of that I was left with $1700 to pay out of pocket to Riverview Hospital. My wife and I were in the process of seeking financial aid for that bill, when all of the sudden we received another bill of $570 from Dr. Yakhmi, and another $550 from the pathologist, and $75 from the one whom puts patients to sleep for the colonoscopies (forget the official name at the moment). I called R. Yakhmi's office to attempt to find out what all of these charges are for and reached a Cindy. Cindy was not helpful, was very curt and rude, and offered no solutions to assist, she just kept cutting me off and raising her voice, as I was attempting to explain my confusion as to how this simple procedure could have cost so much and I have not been told. Instead of coming up with a simple solution, she just kept interrupting and speaking down to me as she "explained" how things work. I rose my voice to regain an opportunity to continue what I had been trying to communicate by stating, are you going to continue yelling at me and also require me to pay over $560 for this procedure? If so, I'm not doing this. At which point she stated to have a good day and hung up on me. Regarding the Dr. I was equally dissatisfied for two reasons: 1. The procedure left my stomach in severe pain for over a week. When meeting him for my follow up and to review test results, I pointed out the pain with literally no reply other then "yeah we fill you full of air." 2. When going through the procedure he stated all looked fine and that the one polyp removed was benign. I had read the results on mychart prior to our appointment, and had to ask him about the other notes made by the pathologist. It wasn't until I had done so that he slowed down and read the actual results (he was over 45 minutes late to all appointment, his office waiting lobby was well beyond capacity). Once he read the results: 3. He stated I needed ANOTHER procedure as I might have stomach cancer, but that it would be mild, and took me off a Doctor Prescribed proton pump inhibitor as being the likely culprit. 4. He tried to prescribe me an even more expensive medicine I was to "drink 3 times a day" that would cure my heart burn if pepcid or other over the counter did not work. Pepcid worked fine, the only good news to come out of this entire appointment. Overall I can not recommend Riverview nor this doctor as a result of their unexpected price gouging, and disrespectful billing and scheduling departments. It would appear to me that customer service / patient relations lacks with either this Doctor and or the entire organization. Either way, I'm disappointed, and broke.

I've been seeing Dr. Yakhmi for years. On my first visit his advice cleared up the ongoing problem I had been having for years. He has done my colonoscopies ever since when needed. I find his office staff to be very friendly and helpful. I'm not sure where all the negative reviews come from, but my experience has been wonderful, and I would recommend him to my family and friends.

I have been a patient of Dr. Yahkmi for over 15 years. He is a great doctor and his office staff is the best. His appointments are quick and too the point. I live over an hour away from his offices and will not change doctors. If you are looking for someone to hold your hand and comfort you, he is not the doctor for you. He is matter of fact and straight to the point with no BS.

Doctor is great. Billing person is rude. There was an outstanding balance after my colonoscopy. I called my insurance company and they said have the doctors office recode to screening and resubmit and they will pay at 100%. The Billing person was rude and would not listen and will not recode or resubmit. I will be finding a new doctor. I hope the doctor knows he just lost 2 patients due to his billing person’s rude behavior and attitude. Good luck keeping patients. I understand now why they are rated so low (1.9 out of 5).

I was concerned after looking the reviews I was concerned that I got a referral to Dr. Yakhmi. After my visit with him the low rating are not justified in my opinion was completely satisfied with my appointment with him and his approach to my treatment.