Dr. Michael Hubert Basista, MD

If you want control of your health and body this isn’t the doctor for you. Recommended covid vaccine for liver disease patients…. mRNA is experimental and failed animal testing so not sure what it’s based on. Stares at computer screen for the 5 minute’s he spends with you every 365 days and then acts like he is controlling your body. Go to Cleveland clinic and save yourself the hassle. Toledo Hospital is also brutal and where he performs procedures. A filthy hospital.

Great dr. Cares alot about his patients.

I have been a patient for three years. Dr. Basista’s care has been exceptional. Stephanie Lance, CNP, has also provided me with excellent care. Dr. Basista has treated me for non alcohol related cirrhosis. He is concerned with my quality of life issues , my course of treatment, and providing diagnostic services. He answers my questions and his staff provides excellent support. I would recommend him to anyone seeking a Gastroenterologist. James Reilly

Incompetent, negligent, did not care at all about my well being

Dr Basiste is always on time, he take all the time you need answering your questions. His staff is not only"friendly but so very helpful every time I call the office, as well as returning a call with the answer from the doctor regarding a perscription . I would highly recommend Dd. Basista and his office.

I'm 47 now and went to see him when I was 28. I was told at that time that my liver was so full of cirrhosis that I was going to require a transplant within 5 years because mine would not regenerate due to its end-stage state. For years I informed doctors of the diagnosis, whom immediately saw me as either a hypochondriac because of the lack of evidence or an alcoholic trying to hide his addiction. Every time I was sick or with a fever I was limited to how much tylenol or medication I could be given, based on his diagnosis alone. Have woken up each day to look at the whites of my eyes wondering if this was the day that I noticed they had turned yellow and that my liver was failing...and it was all bologna. My liver is fine and always has been. Do I blame him or the needle biopsy done at St Anne's for the mess up? Either way, he talked down to me when I asked questions and mentally scarred me for the last 20 years with worrying over nothing.

Told my father he had "mild" non-alcoholic cirrhosis. Recommended a TIPS procedure to cure portal vein hypertension and ascites. Later discovered he should never have been a candidate based on his other health issues & situation. Complications from the procedure were so severe, he passed away in the hospital a month later. At no point did Basista return my frantic calls, or get in touch with me or my dad while he was in & out of the hospital that month. One of his office nurses even told me over phone that the confusion & disorientation (hepatic encephalopathy) he was experiencing wouldn't have been caused by TIPS. But it's a common side-effect! Also discovered later that the procedure is only performed on end-stage patients as a last resort. So either Basista lied about the true state of my father's liver, or he recommended unnecessary surgery. Ironically, before all this, it took almost 2 months to schedule the procedure because Basista's office just never got back to him. Dad had to call THEM to remind them. I wish he never had.

Staff had to be hounded to setup initial appointment after referal from Primary Care Physician. Quite disappointed with follow-up. Results of testing not available for Primary Care Physician after 6 days. Resukts not available from Promedica system apparently due to Dr. Basista failing to finalize report. Unable to speak with Doctor regarding what is going on. Unable to determine next steps of care because of Dr Basista delay in responses.

Dr. Basista has treated me for 15 plus years and has proven to me he is very concerned about his patients and extremely competant.

My mother went to this Docotor for years. She has Cirrhosis (not caused alcohol). He never told her how severe it really was. He would always just say see you in six months. So she thought everything was fine. I looked up a new Dr becuase I felt that he was not giving her any information. She went to a new doctor and the new docotor said that therew as absolutly nothing he could do be the Cirrhosis was too far progressed. She was in a stage two when she started to going to Basista and she is now in a stage three and needs a liver transplant. I believe that is information that Dr Basista should have gave her. He is a terrible Dr.