Jeffrey J Betman and Associates

I bought a groupon for a laser procedure to remove toe nail fungus. Everything went fine, but he charges $ 45 for 1% tolfnatate solution which you can buy for a few dollars at every pharmacy.

Beware !!
He takes advantage of your insurance !
Here is the story:
I was diagnosed for heel spoor.
He billed my insurance for $ 1600.00 !!! for following services:
10 minutes chitchat, X-​ray and injection.
Insurance paid $ 1300.00 and now he is after me for the difference. (Enough is never enough!).
Now here is the funny part:
My husband was his patient in 2005 and he did not used any insurance at the time.
He was diagnosed for heel spoor.
After 10 minutes chitchat and X-​ray he received an injection.
THE TOTAL BILL FOR MY HUSBAND WAS 150.00
I WILL NEVER GO THERE AGAIN IN MY LIFE !!

Went to Dr Betman because I was recommended to to him by Swedish Covenant emergency room hospital since I didn’t have a podiatrist. The service was very fast and professional. Dr Bateman was very nice and professional would highly recommend him. He put a cast on me in about 5 minutes and did a wonderful job.

Worst place I’ve ever been to when it comes to the health world, this place is all about charging your insurance and you lots of money. Went there just so they can check my foot they took a few x rays and that’s pretty much it a month later I get a bill of $ 1500. So if your looking to get ripped of this is the place to come.

From the moment you enter, you can tell the quality of service. The office on Belmont looks old and dusty. You can expect to wait anywhere from 45 – 90 minutes and then be told by the doctor that no one told him about your appointment. Expect to be interrupted often while explaining your concerns. You will have to ask a lot of questions to get after care and maintenance directions and even then you may get passive or vague responses. Although the service was a bit better when I came for my second visit, it cannot replace the horrible experience from my first visit.
I won’t be purchasing a groupon for this again. I wish I would have done more research before purchasing this voucher.
I would not recommend this place to a friend.

Very unprofessional office, you will be there for at least 2 hours. I don’t know why they overbook appointments .my appointment was at 11:30 they took me back to the room an hour later then I had to sit in the room for another 30min and I can hear the doctor talking on the phone laughing while all the rooms are full with patients. I walked out after and hour and a half of waiting

Without question, this is the absolute worst surgical experience of my entire life. After speaking with a legal nurse consultant, I learned all the things that I suspected were wrong – were indeed – very wrong.
If a patient receives anesthesia, and passes out prior to surgery, not one but twice, as did I, common practice sends the patient home to return another time. They don’t snap in your face to see if your alert, as did Betman, like I was some sort of canine.
During the surgery, I was alert enough to feel pain and hear Betman talking to the medical students who performed the actual surgery as he explained how to use the equipment as if for the first time.
The recovery was disastrous, painful and took months until I regained feeling in my foot. As a result of the limp, and change in gait, I sustained injury to my lower back.
I remain physically scarred at the site of the surgery. Follow-​up care was nonexistent. After the surgery, I was sent home in a cab– alone. I’m told I received one follow-​up call. And then Betman and his office billed my insurance company over 12,000 dollars.
$ 12,000. To remove a few «lesions,» he called them, aka Plantar’s warts, from one foot. All this, billed by a person in a horrific, archaic office, who feigned friendliness up until the moment I agreed to the surgery. After that, I was an incident. I became incidental.
Money became precedent. My person, my being, my heath inconsequential.
Disregarded, when I called to express my concerns to Betman, he spoke to me in a tone you would imagine a prison guard speaks to a bellicose inmate. I don’t think I’ve actually been spoken to like this in my entire adult, patient career. Never. Perhaps even as I child people treated me with more respect.
Betman told me, «There is such a thing as patient responsibility,» and to further disregard me as a human, he and his office workers refused to send me a copy of my chart, one I feel confident they would have altered if I forced the issue further. Well, all I can say is this, Betman, you’re right: There is such a thing as patient responsibility.
And this review is mine.

I like the parking situation, there is a lot of free parking around. It was really easy to make an appointment on-​line, they called to confirm my appointment the next day. I liked the receptionist and the nurses /​assistants in the office. They were really nice and made me feel very much at ease. Dr. Betman answered my questions and didn’t keep me waiting too long.
I didn’t give the office a full five stars because I didn’t receive a call to remind me of my appointment the day before, and I don’t think the consultation chair was wiped down before I came into the room. I felt the office could have been a tad cleaner and definitely could use a face lift.

I absolutely agree with Brandon T’s comments. I saw Dr. Betman at his Chicago Ave office in December, but experienced the same difficulties.
His staff was very rude, and he was too! I was supposed to be fitted for orthodics, but he said he would check if my insurance would cover it first. I specifically asked him to call me in advance of my next appointment in case they were not covered, as I would not be buying them. When I went for the appointment, he started examining my ankle (clearly not knowing what I was there for) and then when I corrected him and asked about the orthodics — he told me they were not covered. They still charged my insurance and my $ 30 copay for an office visit of a whole 3 minutes of something that could have been told over the phone. I was certainly not impressed. If I could give zero stars, I would.

This doctor is unprofessional, his staff is discourteous and rude. He charged my insurance and then charged me for procedures that have not been performed. The next time I will see him is in malpractice court.