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PATH Medical Center
Address: 304 Park Ave S #6, New York, NY 10010
Web: pathmed.com
Dr. Eric Braverman
REVIEWS:
1) A Critical Look at Dr. Eric Braverman and his PATH Medical Clinic
2) Eric Braverman, MD - Doctors - Flatiron - New York, NY - Reviews - Yelp
3) Doctor Reviews - Dr. Eric Braverman, MD
4) PATH Medical Review - BBB Business Review
A Critical Look at Dr. Eric Braverman
and his PATH Medical Clinic
by Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Eric R. Braverman, M.D. (1957- ) is the founder and director of PATH Medical, a clinic that purports to focus on "brain health." (PATH is an acronym for "Place for Achieving Total Health.") He is also the founder and president of PATH Foundation NY, a non-profit organization described on its Web site as "devoted to establishing how the brain functions and using that information to develop practical diagnostic and treatment methods that improve wellbeing and increase longevity." [1] He also operates Total Health Nutrients, LLC, which markets dietary supplements online and within his office at 304 Park Avenue South in New York City. He hosts a weekly radio program and has written or co-authored about a dozen books about brain/body health and nutrition and a few on religious topics. A curriculum vitae posted on the PATH Medical Web site describes him as an "accomplished, world-renowned doctor, researcher, author, television and radio personality specializing in neurology, biochemistry, anti-aging, longevity, total health and wellness." [2] This report describes why I am skeptical about what he does.
Questionable Testing
There is good reason to believe that patients who seek services at PATH Medical are encouraged to undergo expensive tests that the scientific community would consider unnecessary. On "Larry King Live," Braverman has said that the clinic did "a brain health assessment on virtually everybody, because your brain health, your mind, your concentration, your memory, your brain's speed, your personality, your temperament, all impact your entire well being, and the course of every disease and the course of having a healthier life. . . When you treat the brain, you're impacting every illness in your entire life. But what's different about us is that we do a head-to-toe computerized exam. Every doctor in America knows that a head-to-toe physical is the way you make observations about health. But today, the computer can actually make a better examination than a manual physician." [12]
PATH Medical describes its Executive Health Program (EHP) as a "comprehensive head-to-toe examination in one day." Its components are said to include brain health assessments (including BEAM testing, which costs about $2,000), head-to-toe ultrasounds, a neuromuscular-skeletal review, and tests of more than 250 "medical and aging markers." [13] A few of these, such as blood lipid levels, are standard screening tests, but the vast majority have not been proven cost-effective. Ultrasound testing is an example. There are many situations where ultrasound can help doctors evaluate the structure or function of parts of the body in patients who are having symptoms. But the odds of finding something significant are much too small to justify its use in patients who have no symptoms. The cost of the Executive Health Program depends on the number of tests ordered. Six "levels are available: the "½ Silver Program," the "Silver Program ($10,000), the Platinum Program," the "Rose Diamond Program ($50,000), the "Diamond Program" ($75,000), and the "Elite Program" ($100,000).
Read more:
A Critical Look at Dr. Eric Braverman and his PATH Medical Clinic
Government Actions
NYAG Announces Settlement With Manhattan Doctor’s Office For Alleged Deceptive Business Practices
Date of Action: 12/11/2014
The following describes a government action that has been resolved by either a settlement or a decision by a court or administrative agency. If the matter is being appealed, it will be noted below.
On December 11, 2014, the New York Attorney General's office announced an agreement with PATH Medical, P.C., that requires the Manhattan-based business to ensure patients receive accurate information about their financial responsibility before undergoing medical testing and other services. The settlement with PATH Medical, located at 304 Park Avenue South and owned by Dr. Eric Braverman, the host of a weekly radio program that often promotes his business, concludes an investigation by the Attorney General’s Health Care Bureau that alleged PATH Medical misrepresented to patients how much of the cost a health insurer was likely to cover, including for the extensive testing PATH Medical routinely conducted on new patients.
The Attorney General’s Health Care Bureau launched an investigation into PATH Medical in mid-2013 after receiving repeated complaints about the medical practice, including complaints from patients faced with unexpected out-of-pocket costs because insurance did not cover as much as they were led to believe. When their insurance either denied the claims in full or did not cover as much as they expected, the patients were suddenly responsible for the balance, sometimes totaling thousands of dollars. The investigation into PATH Medical revealed that the practice did not routinely provide patients with any documentation reflecting what tests and services were purchased, the charges for those tests and services, and what discounts were applied. Some patients also expressed difficulty and frustration with obtaining the results of their extensive testing, and patients sometimes incurred unexpected charges for discussing the results of that testing.
The settlement requires PATH Medical to reform its practices to ensure patients are provided with accurate information about their financial responsibility before they agree to undergo any testing or other services. In addition to reforms aimed at improving price transparency, the settlement requires PATH Medical to discontinue and modify other business practices that the Attorney General’s Office identified during the course of its investigation.
Source:
PATH Medical Review - HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS in New York, NY - BBB Business Review - BBB serving Metropolitan New York, Long Island, and the Mid-Hudson Region
OTHER LINKS AND INFO
1) Doctor accused of stealing court documents in custody fight
2) Doctor tried to bribe court clerk after failing to steal documents
3) Sarah Ferguson linked to controversial doctor
4) Embattled Manhattan doc faces accusation of ‘quackery’
Dr. Eric Braverman is escorted to Manhattan Central booking on Jan. 30, 2014. Photo: William Farrington
New York Post - Jan 30, 2014
A prominent Manhattan neurosurgeon whose patients include former Govs. George Pataki and David Paterson and actress Suzanne Somers was arrested Thursday for allegedly trying to steal confidential custody-case documents from a courtroom.
Dr. Eric Braverman and the in-house lawyer for his Park Avenue clinic, Diana Moyhi, were cuffed outside Matrimonial Judge Deborah Kaplan’s courtroom at Manhattan Civil Court on Centre Street at around 10 a.m., law-enforcement sources told The Post.
A court source told The Post that Braverman, 57, waited until the judge and his adversaries left the courtroom, then allegedly tried to distract a clerk and slip the documents to Moyhi, 28. But they were caught in the act, sources said. Court officers waited until the duo returned for another hearing Thursday to cuff them.
The charges carry a maximum jail sentence of seven years.
New York Post - December 3, 2015
The latest revelation came out at Dr. Eric Braverman’s misdemeanor bench trial for trying to purloin two one-page psych reports recommending that he not be permitted visitation with his three sons.
He’s charged with one count of attempted petit larceny and faces up to 90 days in jail.
Address: 304 Park Ave S #6, New York, NY 10010
Web: pathmed.com
Dr. Eric Braverman
REVIEWS:
1) A Critical Look at Dr. Eric Braverman and his PATH Medical Clinic
2) Eric Braverman, MD - Doctors - Flatiron - New York, NY - Reviews - Yelp
3) Doctor Reviews - Dr. Eric Braverman, MD
4) PATH Medical Review - BBB Business Review
A Critical Look at Dr. Eric Braverman
and his PATH Medical Clinic
by Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Eric R. Braverman, M.D. (1957- ) is the founder and director of PATH Medical, a clinic that purports to focus on "brain health." (PATH is an acronym for "Place for Achieving Total Health.") He is also the founder and president of PATH Foundation NY, a non-profit organization described on its Web site as "devoted to establishing how the brain functions and using that information to develop practical diagnostic and treatment methods that improve wellbeing and increase longevity." [1] He also operates Total Health Nutrients, LLC, which markets dietary supplements online and within his office at 304 Park Avenue South in New York City. He hosts a weekly radio program and has written or co-authored about a dozen books about brain/body health and nutrition and a few on religious topics. A curriculum vitae posted on the PATH Medical Web site describes him as an "accomplished, world-renowned doctor, researcher, author, television and radio personality specializing in neurology, biochemistry, anti-aging, longevity, total health and wellness." [2] This report describes why I am skeptical about what he does.
Questionable Testing
There is good reason to believe that patients who seek services at PATH Medical are encouraged to undergo expensive tests that the scientific community would consider unnecessary. On "Larry King Live," Braverman has said that the clinic did "a brain health assessment on virtually everybody, because your brain health, your mind, your concentration, your memory, your brain's speed, your personality, your temperament, all impact your entire well being, and the course of every disease and the course of having a healthier life. . . When you treat the brain, you're impacting every illness in your entire life. But what's different about us is that we do a head-to-toe computerized exam. Every doctor in America knows that a head-to-toe physical is the way you make observations about health. But today, the computer can actually make a better examination than a manual physician." [12]
PATH Medical describes its Executive Health Program (EHP) as a "comprehensive head-to-toe examination in one day." Its components are said to include brain health assessments (including BEAM testing, which costs about $2,000), head-to-toe ultrasounds, a neuromuscular-skeletal review, and tests of more than 250 "medical and aging markers." [13] A few of these, such as blood lipid levels, are standard screening tests, but the vast majority have not been proven cost-effective. Ultrasound testing is an example. There are many situations where ultrasound can help doctors evaluate the structure or function of parts of the body in patients who are having symptoms. But the odds of finding something significant are much too small to justify its use in patients who have no symptoms. The cost of the Executive Health Program depends on the number of tests ordered. Six "levels are available: the "½ Silver Program," the "Silver Program ($10,000), the Platinum Program," the "Rose Diamond Program ($50,000), the "Diamond Program" ($75,000), and the "Elite Program" ($100,000).
Read more:
A Critical Look at Dr. Eric Braverman and his PATH Medical Clinic
Government Actions
NYAG Announces Settlement With Manhattan Doctor’s Office For Alleged Deceptive Business Practices
Date of Action: 12/11/2014
The following describes a government action that has been resolved by either a settlement or a decision by a court or administrative agency. If the matter is being appealed, it will be noted below.
On December 11, 2014, the New York Attorney General's office announced an agreement with PATH Medical, P.C., that requires the Manhattan-based business to ensure patients receive accurate information about their financial responsibility before undergoing medical testing and other services. The settlement with PATH Medical, located at 304 Park Avenue South and owned by Dr. Eric Braverman, the host of a weekly radio program that often promotes his business, concludes an investigation by the Attorney General’s Health Care Bureau that alleged PATH Medical misrepresented to patients how much of the cost a health insurer was likely to cover, including for the extensive testing PATH Medical routinely conducted on new patients.
The Attorney General’s Health Care Bureau launched an investigation into PATH Medical in mid-2013 after receiving repeated complaints about the medical practice, including complaints from patients faced with unexpected out-of-pocket costs because insurance did not cover as much as they were led to believe. When their insurance either denied the claims in full or did not cover as much as they expected, the patients were suddenly responsible for the balance, sometimes totaling thousands of dollars. The investigation into PATH Medical revealed that the practice did not routinely provide patients with any documentation reflecting what tests and services were purchased, the charges for those tests and services, and what discounts were applied. Some patients also expressed difficulty and frustration with obtaining the results of their extensive testing, and patients sometimes incurred unexpected charges for discussing the results of that testing.
The settlement requires PATH Medical to reform its practices to ensure patients are provided with accurate information about their financial responsibility before they agree to undergo any testing or other services. In addition to reforms aimed at improving price transparency, the settlement requires PATH Medical to discontinue and modify other business practices that the Attorney General’s Office identified during the course of its investigation.
Source:
PATH Medical Review - HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS in New York, NY - BBB Business Review - BBB serving Metropolitan New York, Long Island, and the Mid-Hudson Region
OTHER LINKS AND INFO
1) Doctor accused of stealing court documents in custody fight
2) Doctor tried to bribe court clerk after failing to steal documents
3) Sarah Ferguson linked to controversial doctor
New York’s attorney general subpoenaed records from Braverman’s medical practice in 2013 after receiving 20 complaints from patients about unnecessary testing and excessive billing.
The Manhattan comedian who rented his Chelsea pad through Airbnb -- only to find it had been used to for a wild orgy -- is now suing a high-profile doctor for $24 million, saying he intentionally misdiagnosed him with aluminum poisoning and low testosterone and then put him on a treatment that’s considered “quackery.”
Dr. Eric Braverman is escorted to Manhattan Central booking on Jan. 30, 2014. Photo: William Farrington
New York Post - Jan 30, 2014
A prominent Manhattan neurosurgeon whose patients include former Govs. George Pataki and David Paterson and actress Suzanne Somers was arrested Thursday for allegedly trying to steal confidential custody-case documents from a courtroom.
Dr. Eric Braverman and the in-house lawyer for his Park Avenue clinic, Diana Moyhi, were cuffed outside Matrimonial Judge Deborah Kaplan’s courtroom at Manhattan Civil Court on Centre Street at around 10 a.m., law-enforcement sources told The Post.
A court source told The Post that Braverman, 57, waited until the judge and his adversaries left the courtroom, then allegedly tried to distract a clerk and slip the documents to Moyhi, 28. But they were caught in the act, sources said. Court officers waited until the duo returned for another hearing Thursday to cuff them.
The charges carry a maximum jail sentence of seven years.
New York Post - December 3, 2015
The latest revelation came out at Dr. Eric Braverman’s misdemeanor bench trial for trying to purloin two one-page psych reports recommending that he not be permitted visitation with his three sons.
He’s charged with one count of attempted petit larceny and faces up to 90 days in jail.
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