Sergey Efuni

Review of Hunterdon Healthcare

I am a positive person and typically do not place ...

I am a positive person and typically do not place negative reviews; however, that is the case when I want publicly share my extremely negative experience. My close relative got in ER of Hunterdon Med Center in Flemington, NJ, due to septic condition after semi-surgical manipulation. Somehow a surgeon forgot to prescribe antibiotics and after she worsened prescribed agent which are not recommended by standards of care. ER team did beautiful job and get her back; still surgery should be repeated and I got agreement with specialized clinic in NYU to have her transferred. Everything went fine till Dr. Cao stepped in (avoid her by all means) and canceled the transfer without even talking to us. No clear explanation was provided and it resulted in 3 week delay in surgery when my dear relative spent in permanent pain. After that I got a bill and I made a deal with billing department that I will pay it in parts. So I did, but then all of a sudden I started getting multiple different bills re. the services which I am not sure I should pay at all given the unfortunate result of med care and the agreement I had with billing department. I made multiple calls at tel. numbers at the bills trying to figure out what should I pay. Mostly it was answering devices and one lady informed me that I am not authorized to discuss it since the bill is not at my name. At my reasonable question how come I was already authorized to pay multiple bills and made a deal of partial payments she disconnected. Thus, avoid Hunterdon Med Center for any serious medical problem, it is a dysfunctional organization with multiple paranoiacs in charge and especially Dr. Cao, she is playing god with little knowledge of what she is doing.