Itani Mazen MD PC

Treated us like a dirt
Rude, disgusting
I feel sorry for his staff members (how can they work with guy?)

WATCH OUT!!! – BALANCE-​BILLING – BALANCE-​BILLING – BALANCE-​BILLING– I just wanted to chime in and say I am going through the exact same thing with Dr. I had planned abdominal surgery at CMC in Jan 2014. in network hospital. in network surgeons. everything went without a hitch. I needed to go back to repair incisional hernia in September 2014… we caught this in June, so against planned the sugery. same in network hospital .same in network colorectal surgeon… again…every thing went as normal…1 month ago, I received an EOB, from Cigna for this dr. for 7k. I called, they said he was out if network, and I was responsible. I called his office, spoke to billing, and she said to work it out with my insurance. Not only did she send me a bill, but a handwritten note of exact terminology to tell my insurance company so they complete the claim. Per nj law, 2 surgeons are required for abdominal surgery… he was the assistant. He was also expected to call Cigna to get pre-​certified for in-​network benefits on a planned surgery. conveniently, he did not. I planned the surgery all in network. I just filed a formal complaint with the hospital who were appalled at this practice. appalled once I sat down with risk management and the cmo, and we goggled his name and saw the literally PAGES of complaints depicting the same billing practice… just a real shady doctor who’s billing practices are catching up to him and the fact that he is enclosed notes with specific terminology to say to insurance companies has def got the attention of my insurance company, hospital risk mgmt, and the primary surgeon –all who have a copies of it… just sad that patients have no clue how bad they will be taken advantage of when they are most vulnerable… sad that my insurance company had to pay for his poor business practices… a man who took an oath… and just sad how this bill if not covered by my insurance, will go unpaid, to collections, unsettled, into a civil judgement on my credit. and there it will stay. If only he had done the right thing from te beginning… again, an emergency situation is entirely different…

I can’t even put a star next to his name, what a crook. Between him and Hackettstown Hospital I’m not sure how their cumulative actions are legal and am positive that they’re not ethical. On my «death» bed (OK it was apendicitis — but it could kill you), H-​town Hosp which is in my network called Dr. I in for the surgery who is an out of network doctor. After a grueling 15 minute surgery the hospital felt that I needed to be in for 24 hours, not 23 so I would have to qualify as an in network patient and they can bill substantially more. Since the «surgeon» (can you sense the sarcasm in the quotes??) was out of network he had free reign to bill my insurance company more than most hard working people make in a year and have his staff threaten me if it wasn’t paid in full, what a douche. SO, for my minor surgery I was billed ~$ 35k from him and ~$ 25k from the hospital and squeezed for his $ 35k. The best part of the story is that a few months later his stiches blew out and I needed hernia surgery, I think he used a thread he pulled off his lab coat… I’ve decided that Hackettstown Hospital is only suited for castration surgery on sexual assault criminals and would even have them be weary of Dr. Itani.
{Yelp required me to put a star up}