Hasanoglu Nezih DR

To be fair, I'm not his patient. My 79 year old father is. As his primary caregiver, all I want is to make sure that my father has access to the best care possible. In this case that means that his long term care insurance needed access to his medical records in orde...r for us to be able to get my Dad the help he needs. His office put up roadblocks. I called each time I received a letter from the insurance saying they had not received his records and was told they had been sent. Finally a letter came saying the claim was going to be administratively closed because of not receiving records. The staff at Dr. Hasanoglu's office told me that it was a problem I needed to take up with their record service. I told them that who they assign to provide these records was their problem. Finally I got a message on my answering machine that said their service had not received payment from the retrieval service that the long term care insurance contracts with and I should take it up with them. Payments? Retrieval services? Don't doctors' offices regularly submit medical records to insurance? Isn't that part of my elderly father receiving the care that he needs? Why can't the office staff fax the records to the number I provide? How hard is that? As an already frazzled caregiver with my own health issues, why should I have to call the doctor or insurance company subcontractors? Why should I be told about this so late in the game? Then my sister remembered how hard it was for her records to be transferred to Dr. Hasanoglu's. (She's also a patient). The staff told her that her old doctor's phone number had been disconnected but when she called it was fine. We were able to take care of it through her old doctor but to me it smacks of a pattern of incompetence on the part of the support staff. As for the Doctor himself, all I can say is that my Dad always says he never does anything and that there is no point in going there. We will be looking for a geriatrician to see from now on. In the meanwhile, I still have no idea how I will satisfy the demands of the insurance company when I receive no cooperation from Dr. Hasanoglu's office. Read More

If you are seeing Dr. Hasanoglu as a private patient he now does drug screens in his office, and they will only cost $50 cash. A patient seeing him through Waukesha or Rogers Memorial hospitals will have to deal with the hospital for their drug tests, and they can be ...a bit more pricey there. The advantage of seeing him through one of those hospitals is your insurance can pay for your doctor visits, and they will also assist you in putting together a treatment plan appropriate for you. If you do see him privately, and have to pay the $100/visit fee, keep in mind that this is a standard price and practice among suboxone doctors, and some are even more expensive. No matter how you slice it, even if you have to pay the the entire prescription out of pocket, it is still cheaper than maintaining the opiate addiction that put you in to treatment in the first place. If suboxone costs more than your drug of choice, you we're either very well connected, or your habit was small enough that you should consider something other than maintenance as a recovery option. In my personal experience, Dr. Hasanoglu is a brutally honest doctor, which makes him come off as a bit of a jerk to some people, especially addicts who don't like hearing anything that doesn't go along with their addicted way of thinking. If he thinks something is wrong, he will let you know, and he will deal with it. It is your suboxone doctors job to deal with the physical symptoms of your dependence, he is not a psychiatrist, he is there to put your dependence in remission so you can go on and deal with your other problems. This is why you need to seek out counselors or meetings to help you with the mental effects of your addiction. In this area, I find that Dr. H is excellent in that he doesn't push a certain type of counseling on you and lets you find the method that works best for you. You might want to see a psychiatrist in addition, as Dr. H is there simply to treat your dependence, so if you have other issues like sleep, anxiety, or panic disorders like many other addicts do he probably won't treat them for more than a short period of time necessary for you to find proper treatment. He is also very fair in that he is very patient centered, and will not force you to taper in a certain way, or stay on the medication for a set length of time. If you ask for help or suggestions, he will provide them, after all, he is an addictionologist, the man knows what he's talking about. He's not just some quack that got a suboxone certificate so that he can rake in more cash from people in need. You don't go in to a specific field of medicine like that unless it is something you are interested in and want to make a difference. I have been a patient of his for a few year, both privately, inpatient, intensive outpatient, and outpatient suboxone program through Waukesha Memorial. He has never done anything but help to end my suffering. He even came out to Waukesha Memorial when I was in detox a bit earlier than he usually does to give me my medication and end my pain so I could get back on track. I have had a few failed tapers, and he has never been judgmental or rude regarding my failures, he just offered advice and let me know that opiate addiction is not something to mess around with. I have even had relapse issues while on the program, which he found out during a drug screen, and while there we're some consequences, he was understanding and did all he could to make sure I got back on my feet. As long as you try your best and play by the rules, he will take care of you. I've even seen friends, or people in my groups who were obviously gaming the system and trying to use suboxone as a get out of withdrawal free card in between using, and he would do his best to try to get these people in to a place where they would be able to comply with treatment and do well Read More

He's all about the money, THAT'S IT! Avoid this Dr. @ ALL COSTS, please don't make the same mistake that I did!\t\n\t\n\t\nKEEP READING AND SEE HOW HE SCREWED ME OUT OF ALMOST $1,000 FOR A SIMPLE URINE TEST!\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\nI would go in and pay my $100 visitation fee (C...ASH ONLY OF COURSE!!!), & I'd be out of the office & back in my car in LESS THAN 10 MINUTES with my prescription! \t\n\t\n\t\nWhen he'd come in the only question he would ask is, ""So how are things going? Any side effects; anything different?"" I never had any so that's about as in-depth that our ""conversations"" ever got.\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\nBUT TO GET DOWN TO THE POINT, Dr. Nezih Hasanoglu over-prescribed me Suboxone so that it was VERY hard to get off of it, and every time I'd ask how to get off of it (I'd asked on at least 5 separate occasions), he'd just say ""Do it by yourself, just taper down yourself.""\t\n\t\n\t\n(FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW: If you are on Suboxone & stop abruptly, you experience withdrawals; that's why this is such a serious deal. This is a medication that has addictive qualities!)\t\n\t\n\t\nTelling a person on Suboxone to ""taper by yourself, it's that easy"" is like a baseball pitching coach telling his players that the key to pitching is to just wind up, keep your right shoulder aimed toward the plate, and throw hard. NO! There's way more to being a baseball pitcher than that! \t\n\t\n\t\nAlso, he never informed me or my family of anything relating to Suboxone and its side-effects, how long I would be on it in the long run, or how I would eventually get off of it altogether (besides the brilliant advice of ""just taper off yourself""). \t\n\t\n\t\nIn my opinion, I think that he just wanted that $100 per month; and never really wanted me to get better at all - that's why he never gave me any REAL advice on how to get off of this drug, or never gave me any information on it in the first place.\t\n\t\n\t\nTapering down off of a drug that can give you seizures is nothing to joke about, and since I've been tapering down I've had 2 seizures. \t\n\t\n\t\nThis man is truly heartless, and it doesn't even end here! \t\n\t\n\t\nDr. Hasanoglu sent me to get a drug screen at Waukesha Memorial Hospital, just randomly to make sure that I was clean, so I agreed; I needed my medication.\t\n\t\nI get the bill in the mail a week later, and THE BILL FOR A URINE SCREEN WAS $919.95!!!!!!!\t\n\t\nDr. Nezih Hasanoglu said that ""he would take care of it"", and agreed with me that the price was ridiculous. This took place on August 7, 2009.\t\n\t\nI came in the next month and he had told me that ""everything had been taken care of"". \t\n\t\nWell, two weeks go by and guess who I hear from? The hospital wanting the $900+ for the drug screen that I had taken that the doctor had said ""was taken care of.""\t\n\t\n\t\nSo the next visit I showed him the bill, he made a copy, and PROMISED me that he would take care of it; I even said I would pay $50, but not almost $1,000!\t\n\t\n\t\nSo the next visit comes by, and Dr. Hasanoglu said that he HAD taken care of it, and for me not to worry about it because this was all handled now.\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\nTwo weeks later, I have a debt collector calling me about this, AND TO THIS DAY IT IS STILL UNSETTLED!!!\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\nI have collection agencies after me for a $919.95 drug screen that I took on August 7, 2009, when Mr. Hasanoglu had said just around a month after I took the drug screen that it was settled between his office and the hospital.\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\nBut, here I am, and in my opinion I don't think he made a true effort to try and settle this at all. I bet he made one call, and just said it was taken care of so I would stop asking him during my appointments and so I would stop calling his office.\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\nI WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF HE NEVER EVEN TRIED TO SETTLE IT AT ALL. \t\n\t\n\t\nAgain, it is May 12, 2011 and this issue over the drug screen is STILL not settled, I have debt collectors calling me constantly. Looking great for my credit! Thanks Mr. Hasanoglu!\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\nBut don't worry Mr. Nezih Hasanoglu, karma is a b*tch, and you'll get yours eventually... Read More