This doctor commited insurance fraud. When I was working for another chiropractor, Dr Svastis stole some of the other doctor's patients when they showed up at his office by mistake. He told these patients, who had been referred to our office initially by friends, that the doctor they were looking for was "not in right now, but Dr Svastis can see you."
He stole over $10,000 dollars in revenue from our office with this unethical approach.in one case, the person even had the card to our office but had trouble finding it and he still took them!
But here is the kicker. A patient who ran into a tree with his car came into our office. He had been initially seen by Dr Svastis. He saw the doctor only once. Other times when he would show up for his scheduled appointment, the doctor would not be there but would have him sign in anyway. The front office staff also told this patient that if her could not make an appointment to just call in and they would sign him in anyway.
Obviously, he was not receiving good care so he left and found us in the yellow pages. We saw him less than 10 times and he got better. The problem was that Dr Svastis kept billing the insurance for visits this person never went to!
In fact, he billed over 30 bogus dates, with many of them being the same day the patient was actually in our office!
So beware if you go there. This guy has a questionable history and a lack of ethics.
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