Nevada Orthopedic & Spine Center

Stay away! Like a cattle call. I have went there a couple of times in the past and they were great. I went there this morning and should have known with the ice y reception at the front desk. I was called onto the back and explained that I would like to get an MRI. They would not do this unless I agreed to major back surgery. I have had major back surgery before in LA and I learned from the best doctors. You get the MRI first, them determine the course of treatment. Surgery is a last plan as one mistake you are ruined for life and cannot fix it
I walked out as the storm trooper PA, was rude and firm. No help without an agreement to major surgery
All they are interested in is the turn and burn, god bless you if you use these folks!

I seriously don’t know why all these cry babies leave bad reviews because of waiting times? I got in less then a week and was there from 3−4pm 1 hour. The Dr told me what I wanted to hear and it was quick and seamless. They are busy and have good Drs. Don’t listen to these bad reviews. Just a bunch of miserable people. Thanks Nevada orthopedic and spine.

This is the worst Dr office I have ever encountered. They had me see Dr. Chan, who is a Foot and Ankle Surgeon. I have a fractured femur, and a bone sticking out the right side of my knee. Dr Chan said he didn’t understand why my Primary Care Dr sent me to the clinic. He asked me what I thought the problem is with my leg, and did NOTHING TO HELP ME!!! Have to go there because of my HMO. Have been trying for 5 days to see another Dr, for a second opinion. There are 16 Drs, available. I CAN NOT GET THROUGH ON THE PHONE OR ON THE WEBSITE. The PAIN, SUFFERING and LOSS OF WORK THIS CLINIC HAS COST ME, IS BEYOND WORDS. Please do yourself a favor, DO NOT GO TO THIS HELLISH PLACE

So far I’m impressed with this appt. Had a miserable time with Patrick McNulty, never again. Decided to try Dr. Lee and it’s a great thing. Daria, Dr. Lee’s assistant is already a pleasure to deal with. She knew exactly what I was talking about when I switched, she felt my angst with the situation, however treated me with such kindness and enpathy. Stay tuned for interaction with Dr. Lee… end result go somewhere else… he took time to explain but had no answers, told me injections and pt but left the room and barely said goodbye and never gave me referral for either. Staff very nice… doctors don’t care except for the obvious… will only treat with dr baker for my knee and that’s that. He is the nicest doctor their and truly cares. That’s all I got except RUN FROM THIS PRACTICE unless u need a sports med dr, then dr. Baker is the man!

This place is a joke. 1245 appointment didn’t see anyone till 1325. First a random nurse walked in and didnt introduce themselves, sat in the chair and rudely started talking to me instead of my wife who was the actual patient. After that magical moment we saw Dr. Lee. He walked in and talked for just under a minute and left. My wife is in pain and needs some help, he told her to go to PT and she will be fine.

Never, ever go to this place. Even if you have to pay out of pocket to go somewhere else, it will
be worth it. Apparently UMC & this place have some sort of «connection», so I had no choice. I wanted to go back to Desert Orthopedic that gave me a pain shot that worked. First of all, as others have said, it is impossible to reach someone. I called, sent emails, left voice mails, etc.
They just don’t care. I saw Dr. Ashman & honestly I can’t even call him a doctor. He sent someone else in to give me the shot. I gave him all of the medications that were in the injection that I got from Desert Orthopedic. He did not follow that & took it upon himself to put other medications in the shot. I saw that the guy going to give me the shot was going to put it in another area of my shoulder. I told him where it was put the last time. He insisted it would still work & did it his way. Later that day I couldn’t move my arm at all. Very scary! I do have limited use of my arm now, but the shot did not take the pain away. I am still in severe pain. They are the absolute worst & I will never go back. UMC is still giving me a hard time to go back to Desert Orthopedic, even though they do accept my insurance. I figured out that UMC gets a kick back for everyone they send to Nevada Orthopedic. Sad, but true…

Can’t say enough good things about Dr. Daniel Lee. I am thankful for the referral to him by my primary care doctor. Compassionate and helpful — he is what more physicians should pattern themselves after.

How stupid do I feel. Thought Robert Lee was a real doctor, but only to find out he tells everyone the same thing and he’s just another paid quack for workman’s comp. Just another disappointment on this nightmare roller coaster I am on after I fell at work and got a fracture. Thanx again to doctors who abandon their oaths to help people for the all mighty dollars. Big fancy office and lots of employees, guess the companies pay well to sell outs.

Called to make an appointment to get a second opinion for my daughters leg. Was on hold for probably 20 minutes before I was able to get an appointment for a month later. The woman on the phone got all my insurance information informed me about all the forms I needed to fill out told me to get to my 8:50 appointment at 8:20 but if I had all the necessary forms filled out (which she emailed to me) and I submitted some online, I didn’t have to get there 30 minutes before. I get a call two days before to confirm my 8:50 appointment. I arrive to the appointment at 8:40, the girl at check in, checks all the paper work, asks me to take a seat. Five minutes later calls me back up and says the doctor can’t see my daughter today as I didn’t arrive for my appointment a half hour before to get registered. I explained what I was told on the phone about having filled out all the paperwork already and she just said sorry but you’ll put the doctor behind. I didn’t even argue at that point because it’s just ridiculous that a half hour is needed to do, what at that point… maybe take a copy of my license and insurance card?
Maybe I dodged a bullet after reading some of these other Unilocal reviews. It is a tad unfair that I’m rating them a one star since we didn’t get to see the doctor but what a horrible experience. I’ve never been turned away like that especially being early for my appointment time and having all the paperwork filled out.

Oh if I could give this place 0 stars I would; one star is too positive — wish there was a negative to this scale.
Anyways, came here on a referral for my 2YO daughter; her pediatrician and I were worried about the way her toes here forming on her feet. Once I got the referral, I called the office right away to make an appointment. Two months before the first opening! Are you serious! Hopefully, if you have a life threatening condition, there’s a dr available somewhere else, cause it isn’t here.
Our appointment was with Dr Thomas, and I guess he’s the only pediatric orthopedist at this office. The dr seemed ok, but the service at this office stunk. We waited well over 2 hours to just get into the room! Do you have any idea how long 2 hours is with a toddler! FOREVER! No one comes out to say I’m sorry, we’re running behind, it’ll be this amount of time before we can get you back — nothing. I had to approach the desk to find out how much longer, and that was after waiting 90min already.
After finally getting back into the room, it was only about another 15min to see the dr. However, he looked at her for all of 30 seconds, said she would be fine, and I almost thought that would be it. Really! Less than a minute and all you have to say is my daughter’s feet are fine, and they’ll develop normally and won’t impeded her walking. He did stick around to tell me a little more, some anecdotal stories, and pictures of some other feet that developed the same way. But I found the whole appointment useless.
Oh, and no one apologized for how long we waited. It was in the late afternoon, our appointment was for 3:30 — we showed up at 3:15ish for the new patient rigamoral, and didn’t get back into the office till about 5:20. Office staff were already leaving for the end of their workday!
Would not recommend this place for anything! But I guess you’re stuck though if it’s a referral or HMO thing. But if you can, try and go somewhere else. If you absolutely have to, try and get an appointment for first thing in the morning — then you hopefully won’t have to wait forever, only to spend less than 5 minutes with the dr.

I would give them zero stars if it were possible.
My wife tore her ACL on a Saturday, went to the ER. Visited her PCP the following business day to get a referral. SW Medical sent her here. They initially told her they couldn’t see her until FOUR MONTHS LATER!!! I fought through their BS after hours of hold times and finally got an appointment to see someone three weeks after the injury, only to have them cancel on her the business day before the appointment. What A-​holes! They pretty much told us to go F ourselves… What is the reason you ask for cancelling? Apparently, they aren’t contracted with the ER that she went to (even though our insurance is) and that is where the HMO sent us-​so they refused to treat her.
In a way this review is unfair because she never actually got to see any of their doctors, but I am just giving you the facts of what happened and how terribly we were treated by the staff. I have worked for 13 years in healthcare and have never had an office treat me or any of the patients I work with so poorly.
We contacted our insurance and found another orthopedist who was happy to take our carrier and was able to get her in ASAP, so if your insurance tells you that Nevada Othopedic and Spine Center is where you should go, tell them to give you other options to avoid a terrible experience like ours.

Tried to get a second opinion but since the original doctor was from here they said I needed to talk to some person to switch doctors and they would call the next day it was a week ago and no call tried calling again and after 49min on hold I left a message again to call me back but no return call. Apparently they don’t even care for patients or have the common courtesy to call back.

Came here via a recommendation from Spring Valley Hospital. I got in a hiking accident where my peroneal tendon got completely ripped away from the bone, so, extreme pain! In layman’s terms, my ankle was f*cked up!
Got an appointment with Dr. Gary Morris, who is the ankle specialist. Surgery was my only option, of course. At first, my health insurance denied the claim and stupidly suggested that I go through physical therapy, which would be useless, since the tendon was detached. Dr. Morris managed to get a peer-​to-​peer meeting with the insurance company board and convinced them of that the surgery was mandatory if I ever wanted to walk again. Approved! The process took one week.
After we finally got the approval, I got an MRI done, and was back in the doctor’s office. Scheduled surgery to reattach the tendon for the next day and bam — I was out of there.
3 weeks later, I’m back to get the splint removed and a cast put on. The worst part was getting the 28 staples pulled off the incision. OUCH! Nice 7-​inch long scar that I’m gonna proudly wear! I’d post a pic, but it’s too graphic!
Follow-​ups were great — I never had to wait more than 5 minutes in the waiting room. Always treated like a VIP! I wish it was like this at my regular doctor’s office.

Worst doctor office. Do not go here. Very rude costumer service and do not care about patient health. By far one of the worst experiences I have ever had.

The staff at this office is very professional and very nice. Very busy office last time we were here we waited over an hour. Let’s see about today. Dr has a short day this morning lets see how fast we get in and out.
Today they have snacks and drinks in the waiting area. Wonder if it’s like this every morning. Lol

Wow I think that having a broken collarbone is better than dealing with the office staff here. Medical staff review to follow. Expert advice, avoid this place at all costs.

If there were negative stars this would be the place that would give them.
I just spent the entire morning doing medical expense reimbursements, paying doctors, etc only to scrutinize the last bill from this place… to say I am indignant is an understatement. They billed four procedures at $ 200 each that they NEVER PERFORMED!
This *after* Dr. Ashman walked out of the exam room because he was 40 minutes late and I was using my iphone to read and respond to e-​mails from work which I was missing because he was late!
To add insult to injury, it’s not just a mistake… I have my medical records from this practice stating what procedures were performed and this one they billed four times was not on the records.
This is just a billing racket. Usually you see it with medicare. Run up the procedures and do a lot fast to make up for low reimbursements. I think I had 8 visits, saw a total of 2 doctors for less than 3 minutes. They were both late… and that would be 3 doctors if you include the one I didn’t see because he walked out.
So now I had to take time out of my only day off to write a letter, provide all the documents showing they billed for procedures that didn’t occur, report the fraudulent charges to Blue Cross Blue Shield so they can get their money back and I can get my money back.
Worse yet, because I had to change practices I’m still having to endure the pain from a fractured spine with no treatment because I have to restart with tests and visits, etc.
You know it’s bad when the first question out of a doctors mouth after seeing an MRI is «can you walk?» I’m lucky I can but it can be intensely painful and no thanks to Nevada Orthopedic & Spine Center I’m going to have to endure it for even longer while the new doc uses me as a guinea pig until something works.
Arrrggghhhh!!!

This was the worst doctors visit I have ever had. I saw Dr. Rimoldi. After waiting 2 months for this doctors appt. he spent about 60 seconds with me. He talked very fast and he seemed as thou he couldn’t get out of the room fast enough!!! He has absolutely NO BED SIDE MANNERS AT ALL!!! EXTREMELY RUDE!!! I Will never in my life EVER go back to Nevada Ortho and Spine ever again.
I didn’t have a choice because of my insurance but in October when my insurance changes I will go to a decent doctor!!!
If you have a choice try and avoid this place!!!

Get ready to wait! This place is busy and you will be waiting for a while until you see the doctor. Then you will sit in the exam room and wait some more.
I suggest you make your appointment first thing in the morning or you can forget about finding a parking spot. Some visits I could not even find a place to park, so I just left. Other than the fact that it is difficult to find a parking spot and you have to wait forever, the staff has always been nice and so have the doctors.
I had to go hear because of an injury I sustained to my knee. The doctor I went to see was Dr. Kim. I needed to get surgery to repair my knee so Dr. Kim performed my knee surgery. I guess he did a good job because my knee feels better. My knee feels better than before my injury but it will never be the same. I still can’t walk up or down stairs with out pain. Dr. Kim said he did everything he could do. I think I am going to go see another surgeon and get a second opinion. I feel like they just want to get you in and out there so they can get make money and move on to the next patient. Las Vegas is just a bad place to get any type of medical attention.

I was injured on the job and my work comp sent me to this place even though I wanted to go to Desert Ortho. I brought in my MRI films and the receptionist told me that I had to have my x rays from when I first got hurt I told her that if that was the case then they could have Concentra send them over she said well we are going to have to take new xrays and I told no your not. I have my MRI’s and if the Doctor tells me I need them then I will but I am not because you say so. She got an attitude about that. but when I saw the Dr. I did not need to have the x rays.
I asked to get a new brace and the dr was ok with that and gave me a script for it I asked his staff where to get it and they sent me to a place in the same building that all they wanted to do was get me into a more expensive unneeded brace
Getting the clearence for the surgery was a lot easier than it is trying to get the staff to listen. Dr Ashman is great but his staff needs some big lessons on how to handle people.
I told his «NURSE» (and I use the term loosley) that I can not have dr apointments on Tuesday or Thrursdays due to family issues and she scheduled my follow up appointment for the exact time that we have to have my father in law at dyialisis. She asked if I was allergic to Codean and I said no but I am alergic to Vicadean (???). They gave me a script for Loratabs and it turns out Loratabs has the same main active ingrediate that Vicodean does. This was pointed out by my pharmasist and i checked it out.
The nurse said that all they could give me would be ibprophen or I could just take the LoraTabs and see what happens. I went and talked with my Pharmasist again and he did what he was suppose to which is refuse to fill it. I called back and this time I was not happy with the Nurse so I went over her head and I talked with a supervisor that put me in touch with the one person I did not want to talk to.
I told the nurse that I was done dealing with her and that she needed to have Dr. Ashman call me and she promptly told me he was not in the building and I told her have him call me end of discussion and I hung up. Not ten minutes later My work comp worker was on the phone and when I explained the whole situation she understood and said she would deal with it.
Nevada Ortho does not care about patient well being nor do they care about having staff that does things the right way. All they care about is the almighty dollor and doing things their way and if you buck the system they make things very hard on you.