Daniel A Barone's Online Review Report Card

The inflexibility of the office is a shitty experience, and really evinces a lack of concern for patients (which this office can get away with as sleep apnea if a growth market). There is no reason for home sleep studies to only be available for pick-up during very limited hours, and not on Friday, so you can't do a sleep study when you can actually sleep in. Their attitude of "I just work here" sucks. Any sleep doctors who decide to compete on service will eat his lunch.

He diagnosed my sleep APNEA back in 2013 and it made such a difference with energy, quality of sleep, headache reduction, etc. this may have been the reason my Glaucoma spiked as well.

I have been with Dr. Barone for over five years. I think him a superstar! He is personable, responsive, and caring. Five years ago, though I was reluctant to have a sleep test, he encouraged me to get one. After the test, he instantly knew what my needs were and worked with me for the best solution--a CPAP machine. I look forward to my yearly visit. He wrote a book, "Let's Talk about Sleep" which is my go to source for questions about sleep. I often first turn to his book when I have a quick question, then I turn to him for more advanced information. For established patients, he responds to email questions via the Portal. AND I particularly like telemedicine visits. It is easy to get an appointment and he is as wonderful on Zoom as he is in person.

Dr. Barone is not knowledgeable in the field of sleep medicine and he will condescend to you to make up for hi shortcomings. He will also get you in for tests and then pass you off to his nurse practitioner, Naomi Narielwala, who is not any better. Dr. Barone did not take my sleep deprivation and OSA seriously, even though I had over 50% apnea events during REM. Naomi Narielwala offered me sleeping pills, which would have most likely kept me from waking up for good. Please do not entrust your care to these people. Thankfully, I found a new doctor and I am getting the care that I need. This is the only time I was disappointed by care I received at Weill Cornell.

I am so glad I contacted Dr Barone for sleeping difficulties. His warm personality coupled with his expertise put me at ease. He offered solid advice that worked and answered all my questions patiently. This is a professional whose experience helps people suffering from insomnia navigate out of that to better health. I highly recommend Dr. Barone.

If you like doctors who will BSing you and waste your time ceremoniously beating around the bush, then Dr. Barone is not the guy for you. Dr. Barone is one of the best doctors I have ever seen, and he will do whatever he can do help you. Narcolepsy was ruining my life (I was falling asleep at the wheel, struggling to stay awake during meetings), and very single doctor I saw before him always wrote it off as "depression" without even giving it a second thought (so much for their perfect bedside manner. Useless). As soon as I saw Dr. Barone and told him my symptoms, he immediate knew it was Narcolepsy. He sent me for a sleep study, and sure enough it was. Now that I am finally getting the correct treatment, my life has changed significantly for the better. I have gotten more done in the past year than I have in the past decade, and it is because Dr. Barone was willing to listen and get to the bottom of what was wrong. He's truly amazing. I seriously can't thank him enough.

Totally unprofessional. Tells the patient he's not interested. Demonstrates ignorance in neurology and what he believes to be "neuropsychiatry." Refused to even ask around if another provider at the facility has experience in the sleep condition I'm having. Said he's not bothering to inquire and doesn't care. It was a joke: he said all he'll do is google "neuropsychiatry" even though not knowing what it refers to, and said to call the place that came up, admitting knowing nothing of the place or any doctor there or what the place offers. Turns out it's one doctor who does no work relevant to my condition. He didn't even read anything about the search result he got, he's that diligent and intellectually curious! You'll get more help using google yourself and reading the results to see if you found something relevant and helpful. First he said that there are lots of neurologists who can help then said that neurologists can't help. He said in closing he wasted his time. Shocking.

We use to be happy with Dr Barrone however, we were stuck in traffic due to a bad accident on a rainy day this morning. It took longer than normal to arrive before or on time for a 1:20 pm appt. We arrived at 1:30 pm for a 1:20 pm appt and as were filling out paperwork we're told the Dr Barrone can "no longer accommodate us" due to us being late. Another Dr will see us at 2:00 pm. After some back & forth "discussion", we had no choice but to agree. It is now 2:13 pm & the "new" Dr has not seen us. Dr Barrone has seen 2 patients in the time we've been sitting here. Any Dr this rigid needs to examine why he's in medicine! Punishing his patients for being 10 minutes late on such a lousy, rainy day while we're driving quite a distance to be there & left extra time is certainly no ones fault. We called as we were stuck in traffic for 45 mins. Additionally it took at least 5 minutes to get upstairs on their broken elevators. It is now 2:24 & we are still waiting!!! I think there is nothing special here that we must turn ourselves inside out, be treated like bad children for an understandable lateness, to spend 5 minutes with the Dr and have the honor of paying a $60 co-pay! Later for this guy. He forgets, there is CHOICE!! By the way, the replacement Dr was far better than Dr Barrone ever was!

Saw Dr Barone twice: after my sleep study and 6 months later to check on my CPAP experience. Both times he seemed rushed, which made me uncomfortable the second time. The CPAP therapy had worked on addressing one issue but not the quality of life issue. Dr Barone made a recommendation but was unwilling to discuss and appeared upset that I would want to test the strength of his recommendation. Perhaps being a Medicare patient means to him that I should be sent away within 10 minutes; I am not accustomed to being treated this way.

A doctor is only as good as their office staff and if a doctor doesn’t care about how poorly their staff treats their patients they are not a good doctor. Horrible experience, rude staff, not up front about out of pocket costs, did not inform me of a cost increase on a routine test. Increase occurred less than a week after I was told over the phone how much I would have to pay. Reached out to Dr. Barone for assistance through the portal. Only response received, outside of short rude messages from the program coordinator with no real answers, was a message that he sent to me by mistake that was intended for the coordinator. Do yourself a favor and go elsewhere.