Brown University Health Cardiovascular Institute, East Greenwich, RI

Please beware: this facility bills visits as hospital-based services, not standard office visits, which can dramatically increase out-of-pocket costs. I was referred here after my longtime cardiologist retired. Historically, my cardiology specialty visits have involved a straightforward copay of around $50 per visit. At this facility, I had two routine visits in close succession for an EKG and an echocardiogram. I was asked to pay $50 at each visit, which I did, and no one indicated that there would be any additional charges. Weeks later, I received a bill for over $1,500. When I contacted the facility, I was told that because this location is considered a satellite of a hospital system, they are allowed to bill these services as hospital-based care rather than office visits. I understa

Terrible experience with Echocardiogram Tech Jessica-Lyn Evers; rude, cold, impatient, unepathetic, dismissive, as I was having stabbing heart pain which caused me to flinch, be out of breath, high heart rate, also extremely painful when pushing prob into areas of my heart. I let her how painful those issues were, she kept responding "that's not painful I'm barely touching you". I told her it's very painful to me, that's why I'm getting this heart test done, and to stop being so dismissive to my pain. She was terrible/rude. I was very coopertive staying as still as I possibly could and breathing the way she told me to because I needed to make sure the entire test got completed including all the probing, and she did confirmed at the end she got everything done to complete the test. (It was

After my mom had a stroke we were following up with doctors, the cardiovascular institute in East Greenwich is one appointment we were sadly disappointed with. Dr.B.Weisbord refused to see my mother because she was 2 minutes late. I understand it's important to be on time, however flexibility for 2 minutes is not unreasonable. Dr Weisbord clearly does not care for his patients but rather to adhere to his ridiculous rules. In addition the original appointment given to my mom was in March 30 after she had a stroke. We had to call to get something sooner. Healthcare is legit going the tunes and this place and Dr Weisbord take the lead. Very disappointed.

I had a very nice experience here. I came in for a scheduled stress test. The woman who checked me in was very pleasant. In fact she was manning the "check-out" window but she didn't have anyone to check out and she saw that the "check-in" windows were full, so she called me over and in processed me. I thought that was very nice and professional. I then went to the waiting room but didn't have to stay there long. The woman who performed the test (unfortunately I don't remember her name - I'm bad with names) came in and got me early, before my appointment time. She started out by giving me an overall explanation of what was going to happen, inviting me to ask any questions along the way. Before starting each step of the process, she explained what she was doing and what was going to happe

Had a good experience, very nice medical staff. Receptionist was very rude though and they had also booked my appointments completely wrong. I would have had to go in multiple times in one day if I hadn't advocated for myself. I went there over the course of multiple days for testing, though, and it improved over time. I'm now requesting paperwork and such for documentation and haven't had any issues so far.