Samimi Orthopedic Group

Dr. Babak Samimi is a lifesaver. Literally! I’d be dead if not for him. They gave me a 5% chance of survival when they brought me into the hospital (with a severe case of compartment syndrome in my legs and complete kidney failure). Like a medical superhero, Dr. Samimi acted swiftly and boldly, and his surgeries saved my life.
Although some brilliant surgeons are known for their social ineptitude or lack of empathy, he displayed incredible care and concern during this stressful time (for which my friends and family are forever grateful). I visited him at his Brentwood office for follow-​ups, and his office was as fantastic as the man himself – extremely friendly and competent (and remarkably, there was never a long office wait).
If you want an incredibly skilled doctor AND an awesome and compassionate guy, Dr. Samimi is your man. He clearly cares for his patients and goes the extra mile to check up on them and help them. I can’t recommend Dr. Samimi highly enough.

Fantastic care from Dr Samimi after I broke my shoulder, could not have asked for a better Doc… great experience and fantastic office staff and PT staff :)

This place is pretty aweful. I went to this place due to an injury to my knee and I only went here because my main orthopedic doctor was away and now I really regret for going here. First issue: I met with younger Dr. Samimi and I explained the issue I had, which had occurred in the past and usually with rest, icing and heat the issue would go away. Samimi kept telling me the entire time that I would need a surgery, but I told him that it had happened in the past and with rest, icing, heat it would go away, but he still kept insisting that I would need a surgery. Anyway after 2 weeks, my knee got lot better, it’s the 3^rd week and everything is almost back to normal. Second issue: since I was going to be out of work for few weeks, I filed for Disability online which I had done in the past. I called the doctor’s office and they told me that they can’t submit my form because they don’t submit disablity forms online, so I had to take the form to them so they could fill it out. Anyway, back and forth, I finally was able to explain to them that since I submitted my part of the form online, disablity office told me that I can’t resend the same via mail. So I spoke to the doctor’s office on April 3^rd to send their portion to disability and they told me that they did, by the way they charge for doing that $ 50, which is way higher than other places. So ever since I have been sitting at home and checking every day to see when disability office is going to receive the doctor’s form so I can start getting paid. After 10 days of waiting and noticing that they still didn’t receive the doctor’s form, I called the doctor’s office and asked them when they sent the form and they told me that it was mailed out on April 8^th, which was 5 days after the day that they told me that they mailed.
The impression I got from this place was that everybody fake smiles at you but they don’t care about doing their jobs right and they don’t care that somehow you depend on them. Anyway, sorry for the long story, but take my advice and don’t go here, because the doctor most likely is going to push you to do surgery so he can make more money and the office staff is neglegent.

This indecent happened on 1÷16÷2014. I made an appt with Dr Samimi 3 weeks ago. On the day of my appt, I called the 310 number, and got transferred to the West Covina office. While this was annoying to not get connected to the Santa Monica location where my appt was located, the lady on the phone, Paloma, was helpful. I confirmed my appt and discussed other things that I needed for my appt. After our conversation, I felt fully prepared of my appt that day.
Later that day, I got a call from Sarah at the Santa Monica location. She was calling me to confirm that I knew my appt was the following week. I told her that I was certain that I was scheduled for that same day, esp since I had called and confirmed it early that morning. Sarah insisted that my appt was scheduled for the following week. She would not listen to me and she quickly became confrontational/​ghetto/​unprofessional with me. She cut me off every time I tried to explain, then she just ended up hanging up the phone in the middle of my explanation.
I called the office back and was connected with the nice lady, Paloma, in West Covina. Paloma confirmed that my appt was indeed that day that I thought. Later I found out that Sarah was trying to bump my appt to put someone else in. (Anywasys, it wouldn’t make sense that a doctor’s office would call 5 days ahead of time to confirm that I knew my appt time… which she was only doing bc she was trying to change it and wanted to make sure I didn’t come in.)
I went to my appt anyways since the West Covina office confirmed my scheduled time… Apart from the rude receptionst, Sarah, my meeting with Dr Babak Samimi went extremely well. He listened and helped me to understand the MRI and fix my shoulder problem. He was professional and knowledgeable. He cared and was attentive. After Dr Babak Samimi and I discussed my medical issue, I then brought up the issue with the staff member. Dr. Babak Samimi heard me out and apologized sincerely, stating that it was not their policy to treat pts that way.
Before this incident, I considered Dr Samini as my primary doc to deal with my shoulder issue. But, his rude staff member, Sarah, is not the kind of person I would want to deal with in any aspect of my life, especially my healthcare.

The best doctor l! Great service.

Dr. Samimi is a great surgeon, but the business office did not tell me that I would be charged hundreds of dollars after my surgery in surprise bills.
Dr. Samimi was «in network» with my Aetna insurance, but the **location of the surgery** (Doctors Hospital in W. Covina, which they sold me on, and was an extra 30 minutes further away from my home) was OUT of network. They went out of their way to sell me on the location of the surgery, but never mentioned that it was not even in my insurance network! This is outrageous and clearly something that should have been disclosed before the surgery. After paying well over a thousand dollars in bills post-​op for deductible, co-​pays, Physical Therapy co-​pays, this was a slap in the face.