Nandini D Kohli, MD

I have been with Dr. Kohli for a three plus years but I have no idea how competent she is because I have only seen her one time. I went to see her originally due to lack of insurance plan options. Whenever I call her office I know I need to have at least 30 minutes free if I want to talk with someone. For some reason the phone is almost never answered. Sometimes there is a answering machine that picks up but the message is VERY long and i have never received a return call no matter how urgent the matter is. If I’m lucky enough to reach a live person I am usually placed on hold and eventually hung up on. If I call back and complain they never accept responsibility but instead assure me I hung up and not them. Thankfully this isn’t as big of a problem as it used to be due to there patient portal, yet it’s not effective if I need an immediate appointment. My next problem is I’ve been passed around to different providers in the office and with every new person I have to start telling my history all over again. I eventually started seeing a provider in her office I was happy with but they left her practice a few months ago. I also think she has the longest waiting room time. I have spent hours there for a 15 minute appointment.

Excellent physician but VERY SLOW. I brought my mother here two times so far… New patient and routine follow up. Both times we arrived early and both times we were here more than an hour and a half from the scheduled appointment time. You cannot plan your day around the lack of planning and time management present in this office. Maybe more time needs to be put into teaching efficiency than to dragging out the appointments… The only reason this is not 1-​star is that I like Dr Kohli but hate her office’s lack of time management.

Excellent physician, horrible wait time. Dr. Kohli really takes the time that other doctors just do not seem to. She is thorough, smart, and very caring. The wait time, however, is awful. Sitting in the office as I type this, my appointment was at 11am. I arrived at 10:35. Now at 12:33, I am still waiting to see her. I cannot plan my day whenver I come to her office because the wait is consistently THIS long every time.

Doctor w no compassion. Staffs are horrible to deal with. The wait is usually 45 minutes long. Do yourself a favor by avoiding this place. You will save yourself a lot of headaches!!!

Dr. Kohli saved my life! I had no symptoms but after a routine check-​up she discovered I had a rare condition that required immediate attention and sent me to a specialist to receive further care. I was undergoing an open heart surgery the following week for a rare tumor in my heart. I am now fully recovered and feeling better than before. I would recommend her to anyone.

I love Dr. Kohli! My husband and I have been seeing her for years. She always remembers us, and seems genuinely compassionate and caring. She’s an intelligent woman and asks the right questions and doesn’t like to over-​treat patients with too many treatments (that are unnecessary). From India, her world view is different and more holistic. My husband and I have both gone through some scary health stuff and she handled it with great care and understanding. I feel I can talk to her about anything and that she will respond with respect and care. Sometimes there is a bit of a wait, but I’ve found that if I make an early morning appointment, I can reduce the wait. Staff has told me that early morning or right after lunch (1p.m.) are the best times. Dr. Kohli is great, I highly recommend her!!!

Since Glenda left, things have gone even further down hill regarding wait time. We arrived 15 min. early for our last visit and waited 1hr.40min. before the doctor arrived. They ‘told us’ to make the appointment. We did. We show up and the first words out of the doctors mouth is…“so, why are you here today?” I find it very frustrating. Dr. Kohli was the doctor we saw initially. She handed us off to Glenda. Glenda was great! Then we were handed over to Dr. Kumar.
We are being passed around and it seems one hand doesnt know what the other is doing a lot of the time.

Dr. Khli was my civil surgeon and I got all my vaccinations/​immunizations done from her for my permanent residency in 2008. Now I am gonig back to school and the school requires the health care provider to sign a document stating I have got all my immunizations. I called Dr. Kohli’s office several times and asked the doctor to sign and fax the document to me but they don’t seem to respond. The deadline to submit the document to the school has passed and I am still waiting for my civil surgeon to sign the document.
I finally got a dozen of fax from the doctor but with incomplete form. I had to go to another doctor to get the form filled.

I’m still going to Dr. Kohli, which is my longest relationship with a doctor. We’re really in love – I think this might be the one. I added a star because she has hired a Nurse Practitioner name Glenda who gets you in right on time. She has the same caring personality and remembers details about your personal life that make you feel like you are really talking to a friend, who just happens to be able to prescribe meds. I think I might have an affair with Glenda. But that’s okay, Dr. Kohli says she’s cool with it.

I am so incredibly angered and frustrated right now. I have been going to this office for about three years now (since moving to Austin) and originally was seeing Dr. Love Paul, until about a year ago when he split for his own practice. Not sure on the terms, but I got a negative vibe and think it may not have been on the best terms, they couldn’t (or wouldn’t) even provide his new address, which I just found out is in the same building.
Dr. Love was an excellent Dr, I genuinely felt he cared about me and he specializes in Women’s Reproductive health, so I was very confident in his knowledge. Dr. Kohli, on the other hand, is generally fairly cold (with a pretense of interest in me) and struggles to remember details about me. Dr. Love would even ask how my complicated relationship was going, remembering specifics.
I generally wait about an hour to see Dr. Kohli each visit, which I do not feel is worth my time. (this includes my brief 5 – 10 minute monthly meet up with her for to get a controlled prescription refilled) Her reception staff always seems like they are either overwhelmed (too busy to talk to me for an average of 5 mins or more each visit) or like they don’t know how to prioritize their time well. It’s also taken over half a day before to get a callback from them regarding an urgent medical need for a message I left before they opened in the morning. I ended up getting it addressed by the Austin Regional Clinic on Far West during their after hours clinic time. (where I waited less than ten minutes after my appt time) Guess they don’t check their messages often, that or they didn’t find my very painful condition urgent.
But back to my fresh anger. At my last routine prescription refill appointment, again after waiting over an HOUR in one of the rooms, I was blindsided by abnormal test results from my yearly evaluation which was earlier in the month. I was shocked and upset, and she referred me to a gyno a floor below that they have a good relationship with reassuring me that they could see me soon and that they were briefed on my situation. I immediately went downstairs to set up an appointment for further testing and filled out all the paperwork in advance to make things easier later. The day before my appointment I get a call from their office saying they don’t accept my insurance. My doctor thought I had a PPO (which I had previously corrected her on) but I actually have an HMO. So, hours spent dealing with this stressful situation and fear about what they’ll find, plus a week and a half of waiting for the procedure and being relieved it was almost time, lost. Now I have been told I need to locate a Dr. that they can then refer me to. (isn’t the point of a referral someone telling you «hey, I vouch for their work»?) Also worth mentioning, she said she was going to email me the results of my last two yearly evaluations to give to the gyno and never did.
I also found Dr. Kohli condescending when discussing birth control options, and not very well educated on the subject. She was not willing to discuss or reasearch alternatives to hormonal methods when I expressed my dislike and laughed at me when I told her I wanted something permanent. I DON’T WANT KIDS, I’VE KNOWN FOR OVER TEN YEARS. If I change my mind, I will adopt. She told me that was more difficult than having a child, well thanks for the expert opinion Dr., that’s only the case if you want a newborn white baby. I personally don’t appreciate being treated like a naïve child due to my confident (and imho responsible) decision about my body, or for my humanitarian leanings.
Long story short, I am planning to find a new doctor, or start visiting Dr. Love in his new office if he still accepts my insurance and can see me. I am sick of waiting on a Dr. who is disrespectful, struggles to remember me each month, and wastes my time consistently.

I went to Dr. Kohli based on two reviews. The ones here and on another website. My inital vist went well. She did run a little behind on time, but I knew that was expected. However from there things went down hill. The second visit, I waited over an hour to see her. Again expected, things went all right. The third visit was an emergency one, I was experienceing extreme pain my shoulder, so bad I could barely breathe. I got in to see her waited for about 45 mintues, again expected I was a emergency appointment. Once I saw her however, she sent me over to a orthopedic person, who I stood out side of his office and the door was locked, I called Dr. Kohli’s office and explained, the called the physisican again, he said he would be down in five mintues, he never showed. This goes on for an HOUR I have been back and forth between Dr. Kohli’s office and this gentleman she referred me to. Meanwhile I am starting to sweat I am in so much pain, I am shaking and pale. My roomate who had driven me to the appointment, ended up taking me to the ER. There was agiven a shot to relax my muscles and a mega ibuprophen. Something I feel could have been done in the Dr.‘s office. Then two weeks later I received a letter from my insurance company that Dr. Kohli has dropped out of Tricare, no notice to her paitents, she just dropped the military insurance.
All in all I feel the only shining thing about her office was Alexis the FANTASTIC nurse who was caring, considerate, and very paitent. The rest of her staff acted as if they would rather not be at work. I would NEVER recommend this doctor to ANYONE I Know.