Dr. Ashok Yanamadala, MD

Do waste your time going to this place. They are very unprofessional and will constantly change the balance on your billing account and they don't like you questioning anything they do. They never answer their phones in any department or emails. The only thing they care about is getting paid. After the last visit with my 87 yr old mother which I take there. The receptionist Marie must be racist (I am white) cause she lied and said I pushed her when I never did. I have been taking my Mom there for over a year and this is the 2nd encounter I have had with Marie. The 1st was when I am in waiting room and she is talking about me and I confronted her and reported her to Mr. Connor that she should make sure the person cant hear her talking about them. Then the so called manager/billing guy named Connor asked me to leave didnt even look at their video cameras to see whom was telling the truth and didn't even care to hear my side of the story. Then the Therapist Mr. Flynn says he saw what happened when he clearly didnt but was siding and lying with Marie. Then Mr. Connor refused to give me the name and number of whom I call to report the whole place to. They called the police on me it was all uncalled for. PLEASE GO SOMEWHERE ELSE IF YOU WANT TRUE HELP

Keeps patients returning at short intervals so that he can renew your prescription and charge you for a 5 minute office visit. The office ignores phone calls.

Great for prescriptions refills if you can overlook the fact that you're essentially dealing with a glorified drug dealer who doesn't care, listen or understand most of you what you say to him. Possible he's not paying attention at all?

So terrible

I blindly put my trust in this man. He was my first psychiatrist so I didn’t know better. I unfortunately had to learn the hard way. He doesn’t give 2 sh!!ts about you. He stares at his computer screen 90% the time. Asks questions that have nothing to do with anything. He does not listen to you. He doesn’t give you the TIME to listen to you. He is an ‘in and out’ doctor. Getting in as many patients as he can for that money. I was not given the attention and proper medications. Thanks to him I ended up the the psych ward multiple times. Looking back I wish I could have seen how horrible of a doctor he is. He does not care about you or your health. Please please do not go to him especially is you have more complex issues than depression.

Dr. Yanamadala is great at making you feel unheard and insignificant. His bedside manner is cold and his conduct is unethical. He has never seen me for more than 5 minutes, does not welcome a dialogue, will haphazardly prescribe medications, will not educate you on side effects, and will absolutely prioritize making money with no qualms about over-medicating or enabling a patient's addiction. I will say that his office staff are exceptional and his schedule is highly flexible (because he is always open to squeezing in every last penny that the work day will allow).

I have never gone to a psychiatrist before, my primary care Dr has treated my symptoms of anxiety and depression After years of my primary treating these, he finally recommended that i see a psychiatrist. I randomly chose Dr Y from google. He has been very diligent, and rejusted my medications according to my symptoms. He's a very good listener, great advise and personal tools and goals to set for myself. I have been very very satisfied and actually happy after applying his suggestions to my personal situation. I referred my daughter to him, and she has had the same results!! Ty Dr Y. I'd recommend him to anyone seeking professional psychiatric help. Very easy to talk to with a great personality.

"Doctor" Yana discharged me as a patient because I did not get back with him quick enough on this TMS he was trying to sell me on. I expressed interest, but stated that I would get back with them when I could commit the time; having two kids and a full time job makes it hard to commit to 3 weeks/5 days a week. He has always been super rude and patronizing, which is not a quality a psychiatrist should posses. To drop a loyal client at the drop of a hat over nothing is beyond ridiculous. This guy needs to be shut down!

When I really needed the Dr. he discharged me as a patient over a misunderstanding. Refusing to help me after diagnosing me with PTSD. Very dangerous.

Very knowledgeable and listens to understand your problems

Stay away. Uninterested from the beginning, doesn’t allow enough time for the initial consult. Can be pushy and argumentative, slouches down in his chair and stares at his computer monitor most of the time, and seems to be just checking the boxes. Get the impression I was just another insurance claim. If you take a chance on him, insist on advocating for your health and share as much as you can in your limited time.

I have fairly mild anxiety and depression, so I only needed to see him every other month. He'd be on the computer the entire time, barely looking at me. No big deal; I didn't really need therapy from him, just anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds. Then, last week I had an appointment which I couldn't make in the midst of a high-stress, 60+hour week at work AND closing on a house. I have never missed an appt, and I've only rescheduled twice. I called the office to change the appt, but noted I was out of all my meds, one of which is a beta-blocker for MVP. He refused to fill them until I could see him. I had to go for four days without my meds and began to experience heart palpitations from not taking my beta-blockers and weird symptoms from cold-turkey stopping my anti-depressants. Finally, I called my cardiologist, who expressed concern with me stopping my heart meds and insisted I switch that prescription back to him, which he filled immediately. When I called again to make another appt with Yana, the nurse told me I was "case closed". I said, "Wait, he won't see me because I expressed concern about stopping my heart medication cold turkey?" "I guess so," she said. Time to see another psych. I'm about the lowest maintenance psych patient you can have, so if you can't keep me happy, something is wrong.

I was told we must pay out of pocket as our insurance is not accepted. When I checked the website, I see that our insurance is listed. I will edit this review after speaking to their head office to see how they will handle this.

My nephew ended up in the hospital because of all the pills this "psychiatrist" gave him. He gave numerous prescriptions, knowing that he was already on certain medicines, and that he has been addicted to drugs. SHAMEFUL to knowingly push drugs on a drug addict. Should be put away!

Patient for about 7 months, referred by my therapist. I had no issues, then on May 3, 2018 I came in for an appt his staff set for me for 3:10 pm. I had been without my medication for over a week prior to this appointment. The girl that was there (Trish) was very rude, incompetent and dismissive to my medical needs. She dismissed my whole explanation on why I was there after the doctor left. She had no regard and no willingness to help. I was ultimately discharged by the doctor per her lies.

Wonderful Dr!! Dr. Yana is the best!!

Please don't waist your time with this man!!! I've seen him a little over two years. He put me on Klonopin 2mgs per day, which eventually lead up to 3mgs daily. He didn't warn me at all of the dangers of this short terry pill and how you're only supposed to take it for a few weeks tops! To make a long story short, I finally became aware of how Klonopin can eventually become dangerous and you can't just stop cold turkey. Goggle the facts please!!! He stopped seeing me when I brought this up......

Don't go here just a pill pusher does nothing normal doctor should

My 16 yr old daughter saw him for the first time last week. He prescribed Cymbalta, and said that she needed something to help her right away for her Social Anxiety. He gave her Clonipine for her anxiety which should have worked within 1/2 hour of her taking it. Being an RN I understood this. I called him 2 days after her 1st visit through the exchange. He never called back and left a message at his office for me and said that he was not making any medication changes. Cymbalta, yes, had to take 3 or 4 weeks to kick in, but the Clonipine should have helped her almost immediately. He wanted to see her in a month. Usually, new psychiatric patients are asked if they've thought about harming themselves. He did not. So I made an early appointment with him the following week. I explained that Clonipine was not working and maybe needed adjusting. He said very rudely "There's nothing I can do. Get another doctor.", and threw the chart on his desk. My daughter's condition is very urgent and her condition is extremely disabling. I've never met such a rude, uncaring doctor in my life. His actions, or should I say "inaction" put patients' lives at risk. This was a crucial moment and my daughter was even more hopeless after witnessing his behavior in his office.

I was on a leave of absence from work and that required forms to be completed. Peg the office manager is the one that completes the forms but she never returns phone calls, denies that messages were left on her personal voice mail and I had to drive from Illinois to deliver the forms because she claimed she didn't get the fax. It took a month for it to be completed and signed by Dr. Yanamadala. Dr. Yanamadala would sometimes seem aggravated that he even had to see me and he would be on his phone during the visit. Today 12/31/15, I inquired about a letter for my work that I had requested 3 weeks prior via multiple phone messages, and a fax and Peg said she never got any messages from me and I told her there was no way because I left 4 and sent a fax. She kept denying. Dr. Yanamadala called me back for my appointment and asked what the problem was and I told him that the Pristique he rx for me 3 weeks ago needed a pre-authorization and the pharmacy had contacted them numerous times and never received a response and I still needed it for SAD. He then told me to start Effexor because it's the same thing. I said fine. He then asked what I was discussing with Peg and I told him and he said, "well we fill out a lot of forms for you. Too many." I asked what forms and why was it too many if he was my dr and he said, "I don't know but she is always filling out forms for you." I said, I wasn't aware that was a problem, then left after he handed my rx for klonopin and as I was walking down the hall he yelled, "I'm discharging you as a patient!"