I was treated by Dr Bianco & his team & my insurance approved surgery. Then he & his team went on vacation & forgot about me! The office said they didn't receive the approval so I emailed my copy of it not just once but twice. There was no response after sending the approval so I called & emailed several times afterwards. His office said they were on a "much needed vacation" & would get back to me upon return. I followed up again multiple times after they came back from vacation but then was told they were going through their stack of files to catch up & would get back to me when they got to mine. I still never heard back from the Dr or his team. I continued to followup but they never responded so I finally gave up & am going to a different specialist. Long story short, this Dr & his team either forgot about me or decided they weren't going to make enough money off the insurance for the surgery. It's completely unacceptable for a Physician to forget about his patient in pain & need. read more

Dr. Bianco and his staff deserve less than a star. First He told me he could do the surgery minimally invasive but I woke up with a 6 inch scar on my lumbar back. He didn't tell me "oh there were complications and I had to do it open." No he told me he could have tried it but he can see better with open! What!!??? So because he can't get with the times, his patients have to suffer? It took me 6 months to get to a point where I felt my surgery pain was gone because of that open surgery decision. However that wasn't the worst part. He knew I was taking high doses of pain killers and had been for quite a few years. I never even thought to discuss it with him because I put my life in his hands. He is supposed to be the professional. I woke up from surgery and all I can remember is saying "help me!!" And I was screaming. I am not the type to scream. It turns out he was giving me less pain killer than what I was taking before surgery!! The nurses said they couldn't give me more, that I had to talk to the doctor. He comes to me and I'm in shock at this point and he says "this is not my area of expertise. I don't want to give you too much of something. I hope you feel better soon." and he left!! I couldn't believe it! I could feel like I was going to pass out and I did only to wake up a few minutes later in the same condition. I was like that for 2 days. It was horrible. It felt Like a lifetime. I was in shock and trying to do my best to stare at the tiles on the ceiling and meditate because that is all ai could think of to help me get through it. He finally came to me and said he was getting his "partner" to come look at me as a favor. She was a pain specialist. Thinking back all I can say is "why didn't he do that sooner?" She came and ordered Fentanyl and I had immediate relief. She ordered that and something else for breakthrough pain. Finally I felt like myself. The nurses couldn't believe the difference. I was a happy person. They hadn't seen that side of me before. However, there is one more thing that Dr. Bianco did to me that should be a warning to those reading this. I woke up from surgery with my legs and feet numb and tingling and hurting from the knees down. I would later learn that it was called peripheral neuropathy. I didn't have a leg problem when I went in for surgery. I can prove that with all records. When I asked Dr. Bianco why my legs felt like this he first tried to avoid the question. Then he shrugged and said "I could have cut a nerve but they should go back to normal in a few days. That was in 2013 and they are still the same now in 2019. I am in a wheelchair because of it. I can only walk short distances. Maybe 20 feet before my legs or my back will start to hurt very very bad. No amount of PT can fix this. He did something to me while in surgery for this to happen because I now have arachnoiditis. It's a permanent incurable spine disorder caused by several things one being back surgery or some kind of accidental injury to the arachnoid lining of the spinal canal. I think he accidentally punctured my spine and didn't admit it. Nothing can be done about me but I hope by writing this review I have stopped him from injuring someone else. read more

O if it was possible. Dr. Bianco...shame on you! This office put me through 3 weeks of tests, 3 consecutive weekly doctor visits and the co-pays associated with them, and dire news that 3 vertebrae and multiple spineous, traverse, and articular process bones needed to be removed along with a calcified ligament URGENTLY...because my spinal cord was almost totally constricted and I am risking paralysis at any time. We went through the Urgent insurance approval process, ready to schedule the surgery....then his "insurance" consultant Sandra calls me to tell me that I need to pay a minimum of $3000 upfront before he will do my surgery and that he doesn't accept Care Credit. I am a teacher and I don't have $3000 at Christmas time (2020). I asked for a referral to a Neurosurgeon that does and was told, "We don't do that!" When I asked her if him getting my money was more important than my health/safety she replied with a "Ma'am, we DON'T do that!" Dr. Bianco...shame on you! read more

I have had to have 2 different spinal fusions in the past 6 years. Dr. Bianco and his team worked both of those. They both went great. I have nothing but good things to say about their skill in the surgerical and insurance arena! read more

Doctor: Very friendly and personable. Too early to determine skill level Office: Very, very inflexible bordering on elderly abuse. Just because my 86 year old mother didn't have her Insurance ID card, they refused service until I paid upfront the fees. I even volunteered to return to my mother's apartment to get the card. I had travelled all the way from California to take my mother to this appointment. My mother broke down and cried but no changes read more

I believe Dr. Bianco is a good surgeon. Have no complaints a outs about my neck surgery. Follow up care is very poor from office staff.