Epic Pain Management Amit Gowswami, M.D. Medical bait and switch scam. False Advertising, Wayne, Saddle Brook, Ramsey, Montville , New Jersey
Warning; Do NOT go to Dr. Goswami or anyone associated with the Epic Pain Management Insititute. I have chronic and degenerative back problems. I have been on carefully monitored pain medication for many years and I, like many others need this medication to function.
My longtime physician retired and I went to this place after much research. I spoke to the people in the office at length and gave them extensive information on my condition, supplied my previous prescriptions, test results, insurance info., etc. They assured me that the Doctor would help me and continue with the regimen of treatment that has been working for me. The website listed several courses of treatment available and included in that was the medications that I was currently prescibed.
I got to the office to find it packed with patients who like myself, were there for the first time. Obviously everyone who was there also suffered disorders which required pain management. Normal everyday people, like myself, who are just in need of proper meds.
The staff there immediately demanded that I pay $350 up front just in order to see the doctor. When I finally met with the doctor, he completely disregarded my requests for continuing my present course of treatment. Instead he refused to give me meds and insisted that I submit to a treament of needles in my back which were extremely exspenive. Even though I told him and had documenttation that injection treatment had been tried and didn't work for me, he refused to do anything else for me, treating me like is was some kind of drug addict! When I told him that I wouldn't have come if the people I had talked to hadn't promised me that he would prescribe my meds, he replied in a very nasty way, "Those people aren't doctors. Do you see any doctors around here besides me? I'm the only one who tells you what the treament will be."
Needless to say I was furious and asked for a refund since I wouldn't be treated and I was basically told "You're out of luck". Looking back I now understand the scam here and why everyone in the waiting room were first time patients. They get people in, take their $350 and then show them the door when those people don't want needle treatments. Even though it clearly states on their website the first pain management treatment option listed is medication, they would rather force people to take costly injections or nothing.
I am completely disgusted with this deceitful practice and I feel sorry for anyone who is a naive as I was to believe that they would get what was promised. They clearly are just in this to take advantage of people who are in debilitatiing pain and desperate for help. Shame on you, Epic Pain Management and shame on you, "Doctor" Goswami! What a disgrace to the medical profession.
2 Updates & Rebuttals
Graves
HAMBURG,New Jersey,
United States
Dr Goswami the liar
#3Consumer Comment
Thu, June 25, 2020
Do you remember me Dr Goswami? I have contacted 10 law firms today thank you for sending the bill because it gave me all the dates i needed! Now i can find someone to give a new MRI to compare it to the one i had prior to you damaging my spine with shots you said would help my fibromyalgia :/ your office kept trying to coax me back in with pain meds well i am not an addict i am simply someone with chronic pain whose life you absolutely ruined! Be prepared to hear from an attorney! My complaint filed!
OK I WAS BEING TREATED BY A DR FOR FIBRO AND CHRONIC PAIN. I HAVE DEGENERATED DISCS BUT HAD NO BACK PROBLEMS. MY RHEUMATOLOGIST RETIRED SUDDENLY AND GAVE ME THE NAME OF DR GOSWAMI AT EPIC PAIN MANAGEMENT WHO HAS NUMEROUS OFFICES. HE HAD ME GET AN MRI OF MY NECK AND BACK IN 1/19. AS I STATED I DO HAVE DEGENERATED DISCS WHICH IS COMMON AS I AM 50 YRS OLD. HE TOLD ME IF I GOT THESE SHOTS IN MY BACK IT WOULD HELP MY FIBRO WHICH I QUESTIONED HOW AND HE SAID IT DOES WORK FOR CHRONIC PAIN.
I HAD MULTIPLE SHOTS 1/29/19, 2/12/19, 3/15/19 SUDDENLY AFTER THE 1ST SHOT I HAD LUMPS AT THE INJECTION AREA, I WAS PUT UNDER FOR THESE SHOTS, HE SAID THE LUMPS WOULD GO AWAY, I TOLD HIM MY FIBRO IS NOT BEING HELPED, HE WAS GIVING ME PAIN MEDS 2 WKS PRESCRIPTIONS, HE STATED THAT IN ORDER TO GIVE ME THE PRESCRIPTION HE HAD TO GIVE ME THESE SHOTS. BY THE LAST SHOT I COULD NOT TAKE THE PAIN IN MY BACK ANY LONGER IT WAS NOT EVEN BEING HELPED BY THE PAIN MEDS OR ANYTHING.
I TOLD HIM I CANNOT GET THE SHOTS ANYMORE HIS REPLY "NO SHOTS NO PILLS" HIS OFFICE HAS CONTACTED ME TOO MANY TIMES TO COUNT I GUESS THINKING I AM AN ADDICT THEREFORE I WOULD SUDDENLY ALLOW HIM AND HIS BROTHER THE ANESTHESIOLOGIST TO DAMAGE MY BACK MORE THAN THEY ALREADY HAVE. I KEPT GETTING TEXTS FROM TIGER TEXT WHICH APPA DELETES ALL RECORDS OF THE TEXT BUT I HAVE TAKEN SCREEN SHOTS FOR THE ATTORNEY I AM HIRING! I GOT A TEXT 2 WEEKS AGO ASKING HOW I WANT TO GO FORWARD WITH MY TREATMENT TO WHICH I PROBABLY CUSSED THEM OUT AGAIN!
TODAY I RECEIVED A BILL FOR $19K WHICH I HAVE NEVER SEEN OR HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THIS SO NOW I HAVE TO HIRE AN ATTORNEY TO SUE THEM! THERE IS NO WAY I AM PAYING THEM MORE THAN THE $31K THEY ALREADY RECEIVED TO DESTROY MY BACK AND MY LIFE! I HAVE GAINED WEIGHT DUE TO NOT BEING ABLE TO BE ACTIVE! NO DOCTORS WILL TOUCH MY BACK AFTER I EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED! I AM MORE DEPRESSED THAN EVER BECAUSE I HAVE A CHILD TO CARE FOR I CAN NO LONGER DO THAT! I HAVE NEVER SOUGHT OUT A NEW PAIN MANAGEMENT DOCTOR OUT OF FEAR OF WHAT THEY WOULD TALK ME INTO LIKE THESE SHOTS THAT HAVE PRETTY MUCH ENDED MY LIFE! EVERYTIME THEY TEXT ME I HAVE PANIC ATTACKS
Epic Pain Management
Wayne,New Jersey,
United States of America
Are we Medical Bait and a Switch Scam ?
#3REBUTTAL Owner of company
Mon, November 21, 2011
I am Amit Goswami, MD, Epic Pain Management. I am double board certified by American Board of Anesthesiology with Sub speciality Boards in Interventional Pain Medicine. I have been practicing since 2005 after my fellowship training from Ivy League hospitals like Cornell, Columbia, Hospital of Special Surgery and Cleveland Clinic.
Its unfortunate when patients are disgruntled. Pain medicine is a medical speciality and pain management physicians are like any other physicians. I want to treat and help the patients who suffer from Chronic pain. Therefore all patients undergo a full history and physical by myself and not a physician assistant or a nurse practitioner. Thereafter I decide upon a treatment plan by providing the available treatment options.
Due to the nature of the practice its unavoidable to have certain patients, who are set in their ideas of treatment. These patients demand that I prescribe them ridiculously high doses of opioids which they might or might not have been prescribed from another physician. I try my best to educate patients that chronic pain is treated by a multidisciplinary approach and not just by a certain kind of opioid in large quantities.
Some patients come with a preconceived notion that if they are paying a consultation fee of $350 for doctors visit, then they are entitled to get a prescription of opioid of their choice. Consultation charge is for the consultation, exam and treatment plan and not a exchange for the number of pain killers. I tell these patients that I am not licensed drug peddler.
My goal is treat patients with chronic pain with a combination of treatment modalities which can include different type pain medicines and not just opioids. I also offer patients several different kinds of injections and other minimally invasive procedures based on latest research. I practice ' Evidence Based medicine ' which means that I review the latest peer reviewed journals and keep up to date with latest treatment options.
The warning in this disgruntled patients complaint is appropriate. If patients want to get better and they want to break the chronic pain cycle, if patients are looking for state of art medical care from physician who is available 24/7 , then please call our office. If you are dependent on a certain opioid then find a Addiction Specialist.