Yao Yu, MD

Appalled by this doctor. My parents have been seeing him for many years and it isn’t until now that I’ve become more diligent with knowing how their quality of care and health is. I feel so bad that I didn’t realize earlier what a poor physician Dr Yao is. He is not thorough and will overlook major issues and warning signs. I urge anyone who is seeing or planning to see him to reconsider.

The waiting time is horrible!!! My appointment was at 12:00 and now it is 1:41. I still have not seen the doctor.

This new office is much better than the old one, parking lot still sucks but better than the old one of course lol

Dr. Yao has moved to a new office:
230 E. Valley Blvd., Suite 200
San Gabriel, CA 91 776
Dr. Yao has been my mom’s doctor for more than 20 years. She’s been his patient since Dr. Yao has been straight out of med school. Friendly and patient doctor, who will give it to you straight and a lil more blunt if he needs to be tough with you. He’s taken really good care of her and has treated and cured a lot of her illnesses too. Granted the wait til sucks in here, nonetheless, he’s done a good job taking care of her and so I don’t mind the wait.
His staff can sometimes be a hit and miss when it comes to being friendly, nonetheless, they’ll get the stuff done for you.
As for the new place:
Bathroom Code: 5000 — restrooms are located in the lobby.
Spacious and new and away from the cramped 500 N. Garfield Ave office space — so much better! There’s more seating in here and not as sickly cramped as his previous office. Plus, there’s a lot of pretty welcome to your new office orchid floral displays. If you get bored waiting, there’s a bunch of boba places or eateries you can drive to or kill some time at Hawaii market.
They also got a B&A Pharmacy down here for convenience to get your meds too.

Very patient and extremely busy doctor and staff. But the doctor is thorough in his examinations, approach to tests and even though he is busy, he takes the right amount of time given the circumstances. I’m very impressed with him. I’m not too crazy about always coming in every 6 months or so, but it is the law to see patients before re-​approving medications for them.. Dr. Yu is a keeper.
An appointment is not required, but, oh man!— What a wait you Will have! Bring plenty of battery life with that smart phone…

The waiting time is horrible at this office. y appt time was 11:30 and I have waiting over half hour before I even get to wait in the waiting room. It’s like patients time is not as valuable as doctors time! This is truly unacceptible!

Dr. Yu Yao is the man. He’s been our family doctor for decades now. I’ve taken my grandpa there for years until he passed away. He was, unlike some other doctors, straight forward, honest, and gives great advice.
For example in our family, money was a huge issue. We don’t have health insurance for many reasons. Yu Yao took care of us and gave us advice on how to save money. He switched many drugs from brand name to generic. He also gave us insight to some of the name brand drugs and how some were really effective compared to the generic counterpart.
Another example my dad was pretty sick one time and we rushed him to Yu Yao. One look and he told him to go to the E.R. immediately. While we were on our way Yu Yao called the E.R. and told him about our insurance issue and saved us a lot of money. He told us that some medical procedures are actually more expensive then others. Some leave bigger scars and are less invasive blah science blah. He saved us money and we’re healthy that’s all the matters.
Downside: the wait is forever. Even with an appointment it takes forever. However, I do believe that he sorts out the patients by severity. That’s the only reason why this isn’t a 5-​star rating.

It’s a doctors office, there will be waiting especially on Saturday, the wait can be up to 2 hours. Not all the staff know what they’re doing that’s a given at evey place you go. But he has been taking care of my father and grandmother for the past couple of years so there are no complaints he tells it as it is and communicates with the other doctors and will send you to see a specialist if you need it.

The dr is okay, but the his staff are third world class… and super long waiting time… In this office appointment means nothing.

really not happy with the way this dr and his staff conducts biz… they have so many patients waiting in their office to be seen… why? from my experience he takes advantage of them… wants them to come in to talk to him about results every time… if you want referrals to additional exams he wants you to come in… for any reason they ask you to come in… and once you get there… they are rude and make you wait so long… so you are there hours past your appt.

why do they ask you to come in so often… obviously they make money for office visits and when it cmes to paperowrk they dont use the fax or mail to send it to you… they tell you to come in for this too… so unprofessional.
In the beginning he was nice… but when he found out i had many health issues… oddly enough for someone in his profession he stopped being friendly…
i am hearing if patients require to see a specialist it takes away from the money they receive from the insurance co… so the less they authorize the more money they receive.
also, i’ve filled out forms over a year ago to tranfer my records to my new doctor… discovered that this wasnt done so i have to take care of it again now… still dont know if they will follow thru this time… if they dont take care of it… i will complain to blue cross… maybe they will take action to remove him from their plan, especially if he has many other complaints.