Colorado Voice Clinic PC

When you give your new insurance card to a receptionist, I think it’s reasonable to expect that they will tell you if you’re no longer in network. Chris missed that I was out of network or decided not to tell me, and it’s costing me $ 1066 for a routine visit just to take a look inside my nose. That means that one appointment is now more than the bill for the second sinus surgery they did for me.
Lisa, who seemed to have an attitude each time I spoke to her, also informed me that my last visit had included a neck injection (which I have never received). It didn’t come as that much of a surprise, since they had pulled up the wrong patient’s info during one of my visits before whose last name started with the same four letters as mine.
Their disorganization was always quite evident. I requested my records be sent to a new ENT, which they said would be no problem. When my appointment with the new ENT came up I had to cancel it, because they hadn’t received anything from Dr Opperman’s office.
The surgery Dr Opperman performed also didn’t help and the recovery process took months. His post-​surgery recovery instructions were often very unclear. Apparently using saline rinse 10 times a day means going through 10 full bottles. Who has time for that anyway?! 10 bottles a day is not realistic and when I was doing it that much it just dried out my nose, caused frequent nosebleeds, and made the pain worse. Shortly, after the surgery he also suggested he may need to do another one because of my polyps. Umm, no thanks.
From what I could tell they are a high-​volume surgery practice and Dr Opperman has a hard time remembering one surgery from another. The day of my surgery he didn’t even know if my surgery included straightening the septum, so he said «we’ll put it on there just in case.» He is very short with patients and if you have questions for him you have to find a way to force them in. Finally, the major risks of my surgery were only disclosed right before I was being taken into the surgery room.
Overall, a huge disappointment…

As a singer who puts all his passion in to it and cares deeply about my voice and the way it affects people, i couldn’t have asked for a better experience or a better person to take care of me. Dr. Opperman does the same with his career, he cares, deeply about the health and welfare of his clients, their careers, their physical well being, and most importantly them as a person. Going in to get a voice exam and receiving less than great news is scary for a singer. But Dr. Dave Opperman had a way at putting my mind at ease and truly giving me all the tools for success to heal myself and get back to what i love doing. Without his advice, expertise, and genuine friendship i don’t know where my voice or my career would be right now. But i do know it wouldn’t exist. He kept me and my passion alive and for that i will forever be eternally grateful. If you’re a singer and need care, i only recommend the Colorado Voice Clinic! No other place on the plane will you feel safe and secure when being taken care of in what can be some of the scariest moments for a singer life dealing with voice issues!

Dr. Opperman is the greatest Dr. I have ever had for an ENT he has saved my life and he’s not finished with me yet

Dr. Opperman and his «crew» are the absolute best of the best! This doctor saved my voice and, quite possibly, my life. Having been misdiagnosed and treated by a previous physician, it took him but one quick look into my throat to determine the real issues of my vocal chords that had been improperly treated for about two years prior! He was quick to get me scheduled for surgery and he and his entire staff immediately went to work to ensure that it was going to be a trauma-​free financial and physical experience for me, from pre-​op through post-​op. From the moment I walked into his office, I knew I was in the best hands I could possibly be in. Every follow-​up visit and treatment prior to and since the surgery almost one year ago today has been an effective, results-​producing and most enjoyable visit. This doctor has treated and continues to treat some of the most famous voices in the world, yet he made me, a simple public school teacher, feel like I was the one and only patient he values and is concerned about. He is an excellent doctor and he knows his stuff. He has brought my voice back to very near-​100% and my vocal chords are very close to being normal and full-​functioning. Full and complete healing is expected. To me, this is amazing and a miracle at the hands of this fabulous doctor and God’s grace. When issues with my health insurance arose, Dr. Opperman’s staff took care of everything and that was a tremendous relief for me to not have to be the one to hassle with the insurance company. Dr. Opperman and his staff are absolutely the best of the best and I would not ever entrust my voice, ear, nose or throat issues to anyone else! To me, it has been and always will be well worth the 120-​mile drive to my appointments. I would go a million miles to be in the care of Dr. Opperman and staff! This is truly a medical office where the clients are cared for and about, appreciated, and treated with the utmost friendliness and professional respect. As a five-​star review reflects, it is «as good as it gets!»

These people should be tarred, feathered and marched down main street with signs saying, «we charge $ 250 per ear to get the wax out».
I went here to find out why my ear seemed to hurt. Instead I ran into yet another piece of the disease that is the US health care system.
Turns out the Colorado Voice Clinic is quietly a very slick money making machine that is quietly sucking all it can from the system.
Beware!!!
If you going to enter this office, make sure you clarify all fees UP FRONT!
I spent about 10 minutes with Dr. Opperman, he looked in my ears, said the pain was due to some jaw soreness and I should take some ibuprofen. I said OK. He then casually offered to remove some ear wax he saw. My general doc had done that once just as part of a checkup and it helped so I said OK. He took about a minute to get the wax out of both ears wiht a little spoon like thing and sent me on my way.
Later I got a report from my insurance company that Colorado Voice Clinic charged $ 848 for my 10 minute visit.(!). I almost threw up.
— $ 350 for the office visit (are you kidding me?)
— $ 250 per ear to scrape the wax out of my ear!!! (they coded that as a «surgical procedure».)
WOW!!!
At about 10 minutes, that’s basically about $ 5000+ per hour.
How do these people sleep at night?
Stay far away.

Unfortunately Dr. David Opperman has mistaken his ego for a skillset of a published laryngologist. While Buzz Reifman and Kate Emerich are interested in the health of their clients, Opperman, a fresh out the gate laryngologist is only interested in money.