Vinitsky Alan R MD

Best physician hands down. He has given me hope for a life without pain. My immune system has become stronger since seen him and taking his supplements. This guy knows his stuff and has the best bed side manner I have never thought was possible after meeting so many rude physicians. Ive been battling my health issues for 5 years and now with the help of Dr. V, I am finally able to have control and not let it control me. Clean office, friendly staff, easy parking for free, and amazing location. Not like going to a doctor in Chevy chase and traffic and no parking, you will not have this issue here.
I wish there was someway I could re-​pay him because a simple breakfast for the staff is not enough. I am so grateful words cannot describe. I found him out of luck after asking a pharmacist where I can find a good primary doc and she gave me his name. They took me in that very same day even though he is super busy, which means he is good at what he does, they still made a effort to get me in that same day. Ive never had billing issues with him like I’ve had with all my other docs.
We need more caring physicians like Dr. V in this world.
Sincerely,
Frederick… — -

Dr. Vinitsky is the best we have ever seen. Specializes in and is able to treat the most confounding issues. Solved a lime/​bartonella issue with my wife. Walked us through severe pesticide poisoning and continues to offer the most insightful possible options and remedies that not only take aim at present issues but the thwarting of future ones. Fantastic…

Well, I’ve seen Dr. Vinitsky twice now, and while I think his procedures, testing, and treatment plan certainly have merit — though it IS a cookie-​cutter treatment, as I’ve seen in other reviews — I won’t be back. You can be the very best doctor in the whole world –but if your staff are incompetent, argumentative with patients, unhelpful, and/​or downright obstructive — there’s no point to continue with said doctor when there are so many out there.
What has happened just today is that I called up the office to question a bill I just received, which doesn’t show the payments I made in person, in November on 2 separate days — only an old balance from a previous visit; and new charges that I had not seen yet., ever. Also, the new charges are now over 3 months old, but this is the first time I’ve seen them because they never sent me any bill in between now and then, even though insurance has already processed it. Nobody called me about it, either, which I find strange, because if you’re running any kind of a business and someone owes you money for a lengthy time period but doesn’t call you„ wouldn’t you call to find out what’s happened? I mean, would you really wait until the whole thing’s over 120 days and about to go to collections? That makes no sense.
The young woman I spoke with claimed that while their computer systems show my previous payments in person, they didn’t put it on this bill because it’s confusing to the patient… But the payments were made on the same day as the dates of service on the bill, so why aren’t they showing? Her statement doesn’t make sense, and it doesn’t hold water. Simply put, I don’t believe her; and we’ll see if those payments *magically* show up once they send the full statement. If it gets here.
And none of that explains why I haven’t been billed for new charges since December. They claim they sent it to my correct address –after I asked her to check —, but if that’s true, then I would have had the bill by now. If I’m being charitable, I suppose the bad weather could have been the culprit — probably a lot of folks on the Eastern seaboard didn’t get their mail for that reason this Winter. One creditor for another bill didn’t get a payment we’d had our bank’s Billpay send, and that was by mail — so maybe that’s what happened.
So we’ll see what they send me. It won’t surprise me at all if they instead send me to a collections company — even though there’s been no contact about any amount due in some time, not even a phone call — but if that happens, I have my receipts. It just really bugs me that I had to convince her, appeal to her sense of fair play, be extra-​diplomatic, just to get her to do anything for me. It sure feels like she’s looking down her nose at me, the patient, because all she wanted to do is just talk over me. That’s not very respectful — you don’t do that to a patient or customer. I imagine it’s very difficult to work in the medical field, especially, with an attitude like that. And it’s a waste of my precious time to deal with it, too. It’s just a shame a good doctor will lose a patient, me, because of it.
Oh, and it might be significant that the doctor’s practice name has changed — Dr. Vinitsky used to be listed under Enlightened Medicine. Maybe he still is, but that’s not what it says on his bill; and it’s not how the phone is now answered.