Omar Tirmizi MD, Culver City CA

Dr. Omar Tirmizi refused to see my Mother who is a cancer patient who had an emergency medical need. He would not take her out-of-state insurance unless we paid cash upfront. Not only did we have my Mother's Pulmonologist call from out of state to speak directly to Dr. Tirmizi to explain the urgency and severity of our case but we also had her insurance company send three separate authorizations stating they would cover all incurring fees. His secretary Deepa told me regardless of all our efforts, unless the insurance company sends an 'additional' letter stating they would pay, despite the legal binding authorizations they sent already stating payments would be made, Dr. Tirmizi would not see my Mom on this emergency basis unless we paid upfront and in cash! Meanwhile we have three separate Doctors from Cedars- Sinai who've agreed to see my Mother with her out of state insurance. Doctor Tirmizi is a disgrace and should not be able to practice if he is only interested in making money and not helping people in a life or death situation. Beware of this doctor and his unempathetic and unprofessional staff. I have made complaints with Medical Board of California and with Cedars-Sinai who he is affiliated with. Doctors like Dr. Tirmizi should be held accountable for not upholding his Hippocratic Oath.

I went to get a regular physical. They were supposed to do bloodwork for many different things. Days later I get a call from his assistant that I need to go back to get more blood drawn because the lab did not accept the sample for a certain test. He was not upfront with how he messed up my sample. He said the rest of the tests were going to be ready next Monday. The whole week went by, I called Friday he said the Dr had already left. I called on Monday, he said that the Dr.was not there that for sure he would call me the next day. When I asked how come it was taking more than two weeks, he gave me attitude and insisted the doctor was going to call me the next day. I still didn't hear back from the doctor.
Not only they are not professional, they are rude and not trustworthy. The worse experience ever!

This doctor couldn’t help me and sent me to another doctor. Months later I am getting call for a bill. Horrible service.

Medical staff does not do their job well been waiting two months for them to fix an authorization constantly getting rushed off the phone and the staff member for Dr tirmizi is hardly there have called at least 5 times where he wasn’t there and he is the only person that can do what I need constantly saying he has submitted but when I call days later they say they haven’t received anything or talked to this staff member I just feel like it’s poor execution with the staff I came to this doctor for a sleeping issue he provides me with the authorization I need but the company doesn’t do rental machines all I needed is them to send a different authorization to my insurance then I can get my machine but it’s now two months since I’ve talked to the doctor.

Office people here are very rude. Never have they had pleasant greeting. Patients come to get better, but instead leave the office with a sense of confusion. Wondering if the Doctor actually paid attention to the patient's health needs. The first time, I thought that they were having a bad day, but it's all the time. If you are forced to come to this office, please know your rights as a patient and don't let them treat you like you are beneath them. They are just unbelievable. No sense of customer service.