Prabaker Venu, MD – Health Care Medical Group

Unfortunately, many of the reviews listed here are for the office itself and not Dr. Prabaker. With that in mind, I am specifically reviewing the doctor.
I personally had a GREAT experience with Dr. Prabaker. I’ve never had such comprehensive results given from a physical and he was very patient with explaining what everything meant. I was even able to go home with a personalized booklet explaining all of my results and a suggested meal plan. Since I’m only 21, I find this information EXTREMELY valuable, since now I know in my later years I am prone to certain ailments I can start preventing now. I even requested another test, which he quickly granted and I was able to get the test that same day. I highly suggest going to this office and requesting Dr. Prabaker for your physicals.

I trained with Dr. Prabaker and he is a brilliant and caring man. I am shocked to read these reviews and feel it may be due to the fact that his pts are generally older and may not be the Unilocal reviewing type. His patients love him, his staff is extremely careful, diligent, organized, cheerful, and flow very well, and he cares deeply about his patients. Any practice will make mistakes and piss off a patient or two but this office takes great strides to check and double check their work, and provide careful quality care. In comparison to most of the practices I have trained or worked at, I am highly impressed by the care provided here.

My husband was a long time pt of Dr Prabaker. He was given appointments with the physician’s assistant mostly for review of his hypertension. They lacked the foresight to do screening exams or physicals for him on any regular basis. After changing doctor’s my husband was found to have a high psa blood test which may mean prostate cancer of which his father died. A good physician takes into consideration the past medical history of a patient and screens them regularly for diseases they may be predisposed to having. At 55 years of age, this was his first blood test screening of prostate trouble. Very poor medical practice. We are now extremely concerned. I would not recommend going to this MD.

I finally had enough after 15 years of the office deteriorating, physician assistance coming and going like a revolving door, staff unable to complete referrals or prescriptions without a minimum of 2 calls. Move to a new doctor and what a breath of fresh air.

This dr is the worst dr i have ever been to, he has no memory of what he has done on last visit, he has 0 compassion, i don’t even know how he got dr license. His staff are as bad as he is. I would not go to dr if he was the only one. Stay away from this guy, if you are sick, and go to him, you’re in trouble.

This review is for the office of Dr. Prabaker, and not him specifically.
If you want to be greeted with complete and utter incompetence, then this is the medical clinic for you.
1 Prescriptions written incorrectly. Multiple, multiple times. When I tried to fix over the phone, told I need to come back in for another appointment.
2. No such thing as a returned phone call. Good luck even getting someone on the phone There office is closed for meetings, lunch, and their computer system breaks.
3. Different Dr’s telling me different things. For example, 1 Dr. told me it was not necessary to pay out of pocket for a psychiatrist, and that given the lack of severity of the issue, he could handle my case. I went in to the office for a refill and the new Dr, one I had never met, told me she would not fill my prescription and that I needed a psychiatrist. WTF?
4. Referrals not being processed, left waiting for months to see a specialist.
5. They forget to call in prescriptions. Once, I went to pick up my anti biotics from rite aid and they told me they never received my script. When I called my Dr. they could not help me because the Dr. was not reachable.
I could go on and on… The 1 star is for the nice girl who takes my co-​pays and for the gals who take my blood pressure.
Run from this place!

I have had the same. experience as other reviewers here. DR P has me. seeing exclusively students from a trade school called UEI whom i have not agreed to have treat me for any visits. They enter my purpose for visit into the computer system and details and many times it takes 45 minutes. When the Dr comes in he says hello, never listens to lungs or heart, goes to the computer, quietly reads the student’s input, verbalizes suggestions and corrections and does not look at the patient. He was irritated that I had requested to see him instead of students or a PA. He said «Im busy and what I cant do I have others do.» I chose him because I have potentially life threatening conditions such as copd, diabetes, etc and he is.a.doctor of Internal Medicine. However I see students (not interns). He recently performed his own telephone survey his own people who asked if I would be interested in paying money each month to him for a concierge service that would entitle me to access to the doctor by phone etc. I was appalled and said I expect him to return phone calls or someone on his behalf anyway but neither he nor his staff has ever returned a call and I have had to go to the ER to get medical attention during a week day because they dont return calls. Very sad. Has never let me know results to tests. I worked hard and have good insurance but apparently I am not one of the privileged few that he sees. I cried over it and tried to resolve it to no avail. Christine and the medical assistant s are wonderful but have no part in how the place is run. Pat U

Made an appointment through ZocDoc, and they cancelled it on me. Why did you let me book the appointment if it wasn’t available? You have wasted my time and further delayed treatment of my illness.

The quality of medical care at this office has gone down. Dr. Prabaker used to care about his patients. Now it is just another money mill. PA Mark Hartman is an a$$hol! He is one arrogant sob. He is cocky, and acts like he knows more about healthcare than Dr. Prabaker. Dr. Prabaker is shifting more of his patients to see his PAs. They like to write as many high cost prescriptions just for a short period, forcing you to go back to obtain another unnecessary consult with a PA even though the condition is well managed per the doctor. Finally, all annual physicals are by PAs at an overblown cost. I am so glad that I have found another caring physician. Adiós M. Hartman! You are a disgrace to PAs!

Most unprofessional practice I’ve ever dealt with. Unfortunately I have never met Prabaker, he’s too busy to see patients. His staff will not call you back, you can call and call, nobody will return your call. I don’t have to deal with this stuff and I won’t. Time to find a decent place.

If I could give these people a zero or negative stars I would. They are only interested in getting you into the office as often as possible so they can charge you or your insurance for the visit. On at least 5 occasions I had refill requests for prescriptions go unfilled due to screw ups and non-​communicated reason. I take blood pressure meds and had rite-​aid request a renewal of my prescription. 3 days go by without any reply from my doctors office. I call them and they say that because I haven’t been into the office this calendar year they didn’t refill the Rx. I don’t have a problem with the policy I have a problem with nobody telling me. What kind of doctor lets his patients swing in the breeze on HEART medication. Maybe a phone call to tell me about the policy or something so Im not doing damage to my body. F^%K THEM!
In addition I never actually saw the «Doctor» I’d deal with a bunch of UEI Medical Assistants that were training and a different nurse every time I went for a visit. Their service sucks their staff are a bunch of trainees and I wouldn’t send my dog to this QUACK!