Dr. Filler saved my LIFE! I would not be here today if he had not seen,evaluated,and quickly performed the appropriate surgical intervention at Cedar Sinai Hospital. I had injured myself while running then had misfortune of being misdiagnosed by at least 5 Dr.s in Orange County who had left me for dead! I knew there was an entrapped nerve involved that rendered me in a wheelchair,weak,malnourished,in excuriating pain, and hopeless!It was my periformis muscle and obturator muscle that had split thus causing sciatic and pudundal nerve to be wrapped with adhesion/scar tissue!I was on Fentanyl,percocet,xanax,robaxin,etc before surgery April 2011. Within 2months I was walking,eating,off all narcotics,and on my way to being the mother, wife, and person I used to be. I can never thank Dr. Filler enough for choosing to help those like myself with peripheral nerve damage.Dr.Filler didn't accept my Medicare insurance so the financial aspect is only complaint. Thanks to my Dad for providing$$.ox

Dr. Filler totally misdiagnosed me. It turns out I have a large S.I joint lesion (on the bone) not the periformis syndrome he diagnosis everyone with. Staff wanted to schedule injections ($13,000) the same day as the scan. I insisted on having the scan analyzed before proceeding further. He charged me overtime for his interpretation. He said injection is a diagnostic tool. I could expect relief for a few hours or days at best. Surgery would be required (over $55,000). All out of pocket, insurance company considers his methods experimental. Second opinions: two doctors without my solicitation warned me not allow him to do surgery on me. He has a bad reputation amongst his peers. The scan was blurry and very low res. He dodged phone calls from second doctor I asked to discuss my case with. I was rescued from a useless surgery by seeking a second opinion. It's scary he's allowed to practice. Get a second opinion before you get yourself in a financial hole with Dr. Filler.

Stay away!! Had the injections. Had the nerve release surgery. Still not better. Actually worse than before! The office staff was horrible to deal with. Always waited 2 plus hours after the scheduled appointment time. Charged high prices with no results.. And don't get me started on the billing!! Never accurate! Different amounts for the same bills. Try to talk to someone about it and they don't get back to you. Try to schedule a face to face mtg with them and it never happened. Wish we would have read the reviews before going. But when your in pain you do what ever it takes to make it go away!! Money wasted at this office!!! Reading the responses to all the other bad reviews on here and they are obviously from his office. There have been numerous phone conversations with some other patients of his and they had the same bad results and bad experiences.Amazing how small this world is with so many with the same symptoms. Don't be the next guinea pig!!

I found Dr. Filler to be focused on money and not my care. His staff told me to take out a home equity loan to pay for *one* piriformis injection costing $10,000! No, that wasn't a typo. $10,000 for one injection! The MRN of my pudendal nerve wasn't done correctly, but they refused to reimburse my payment. You must pay, up front, in cash. It seems that Dr. Filler diagnoses all of his pudendal neuralgia patients with piriformis syndrome so he can get the money for those outrageous injections. Also, after my initial appointment, I was told that I could only see or talk to Dr. Filler again if I had surgery. I was only permitted to speak with his assistant. Needless to say, I never returned. I would not recommend Dr. Aaron Filler.

I had piriformis resection surgery in 2008. I am in slightly more pain now than before surgery. The surgery was not a success and I was very disappointed. According to his research, 85 percent of his surgery patients have a good to excellent outcome. Maybe I am just unlucky if the research is valid. He is a very knowledgeable doctor but he does come across as slightly arrogant. Overall, he is nice and easy to talk to. His receptionists and billing staff are sometimes cranky and not very friendly but they did everything I needed and were responsive. He is very late to his appointments (waited 2 hours) but when I did get to see him, he spent a lot of time and was very attentive. He is only late because he spends as much time as the patient needs. It is very difficult for insurance to reimburse more than 70 percent of "customary and usual." You have to do multiple appeals ahead of time. I was not informed of this ahead of time and lost out on a lot of money. He seems like an excellent surgeon and I hope my experience isn't the norm. He definitely has amazing credentials and an

Love the doc - this guy is THE answer to all of my diagnostic prayers - but I question his office billing procedures - strongly dislike most of his office staff - the front desk folks are SO unprofessional. The NP, Michelle, is very nice and helpful in person but not as warm in communications on the phone or in email. There are many team members involved in the scheduling that it gets very confusing and lots of messages get crossed creating lots of The financial team can be nasty on the phone and have threatened collections for an amt that they claim I owe - $ from a check that THEY say BCBS sent me - and which BCBS has no record! But I digress - my apologies I NEED to have the surgery he performs. He is THE BEST. He believes me. I just wish that the process of getting scheduled for procedures was more streamlined and more user friendly.

I have to say that Dr. Filler solved my back problem but created another pain in the butt with his incompetent staff. My husband spent 8 hours putting all the bills into an excel sheet and trying to figure out what the heck his staff does all day besides being rude to patients...because they certainly don't know how to do paperwork. Whenever we called, they were rude and even hung up on us. It is a shame because Dr. Filler is very nice and knowledgeable but he has hired imbeciles to run his office. They coded all the procedures wrong and because of that, the insurance wouldn't pay. We kept calling for them to send the proper codes and would not respond and then would send out letters saying our account was in collections. They FINALLY got us the proper codes and my insurance company paid promptly after that but it took 1 1/2 years!!!

I do have to say I am still shaking form my exprience, I had to wait over an hour and half to see him, everyone juyt walking around and smiling at me, with no patiant. finally after 2 hours seeing him, he didnt tell me anything I didnt know, asking me to do a $4000 speicial MRI beofore he can say anything, you charge $500 for a consultation you better give someone some info. then I was led into a room that had to sit down and wait again, and wait for someone to close me, totaly sounds like a used car lot, all and all there was 10 people walking around and there was only 2 paitiant, including me, my exprience was horrible, save your $ and go some place else, I have no problem giving my name to anyone interested, STAY AWAY!!!

Saw this guy as I was desperate. This guy tells me I need an Injection followed by an MR Neurography scan. I ask the staff about insurance and they pretty much tried to rip me off by telling me it is covered by insurance and sending me around in circles. Once I found out insurance doesn't cover anything I dropped this quake.

I wish I had seen the comments on this website before I went. The initial 15-minute consulation was a whopping $700. He could not give me more information from all the NCV, EMG, MRI and CT scans I hade done. He sent me for an MR neurography which was deemed clinical unproven by my insurance carrier and only can be done at his facility. Did I mention the cost was $3,000+ for a single MRI scan? His staff was very rude. I had to wait more than an hour while there was no other patients. I don't think the exorbitant cost is justified by the efficay of the treatment and diagnosis. Please do explore any other possible options before you decide to spend money on something that may not help (unless you have no expectations). I was desperate as no one could tell me the extent and cause of my nerve damage. I wish I had done my home work.