Dr. Rathna Kumar Yallapragada, MD

Worst and unprofessional billing and support staff - My annual physical covered by insurance were billed as regular blood work and its been 8 months but their billing is so fraudulent - Have been nightmare talking to them

Amazing Dr and Staff I recently had a fantastic experience with Dr. Yallapragada and his staff. The level of professionalism and genuine care was evident from the moment I walked in years ago and still is. Dr. Yallapragada took the time to thoroughly explain everything and answer all my questions. He showed genuine concern and care regarding my health issues. The nurse was equally very kind and caring. The staff was friendly, efficient, and created a welcoming atmosphere, overall a positive and reassuring healthcare experience. I highly recommend Dr. Yallapragada and his team. Thank you Dr Yallapragada for being amazing and caring and having such a wonderful team from nurse to front desk.

I cannot recommend this doctor or either of his office locations. Buckle up. It's gonna be a ride. I've been going to Doctor Yallapragada for a few years now as my general practitioner, and at his best, he and everyone else that works in his two offices are mediocre. Firstly, the offices themselves: While the Lombard office is inoffensive, the Willowbrook office is cramped and dirty. Physician assistants are constantly tripping over each other just navigating the tight spaces. I’ve had stuff spilled on me. The physician assistants are also absolute ditzes. One time when I was in the waiting room waiting on some test results, a bunch of the assistants were giggling and squealing in the waiting room, zapping each other with a noise-activated shock collar for dogs! These are the people I'm supposed to trust to stick pointy objects in my ears. The desk workers are lazy and incompetent. One time I was trying to find out about getting a prior authorization for an STI test as part of my… routine check-up, because it's good to keep up to date on that even when you don't have symptoms. I called in, and the lady who answered the phone went, "Ohhh... I don't know how to do any of that. I don't know how to look that up. You'll have to call back on Monday." (It was Friday). So I called back on Monday, and it was the same woman, and she pulled the same shtick. So not only did she NOT look up how to do the thing she didn't know how to do for her job, she passed the buck to someone else not two, but THREE different times. So I had to finally make an appointment with my doctor just to ask him directly about prior authorizations so I could try and get this expensive regular health screening covered by my insurance. Either this woman is the laziest office worker on Earth, or she, like many other people in this country, is fussy that I have an active and free sex life and didn't want to help me maintain my sexual health out of some prudish puritanical stubbornness. They are terrible at scheduling and constantly overbook themselves. One time I came for a scheduled appointment. I waited 30 minutes in the waiting room. Then I was brought into an examination room where one of the clumsy ditzes took my blood pressure and everything. Then I waited in that chair for a solid hour, just waiting for the doctor to come and tell me my results from a recent blood test. An hour. No exaggeration. I had places to be, so I finally just up and walked out. He called me ten minutes later and just told me the results, which could have saved me a trip to the office and an hour and a half of my time! But they WANT you in that office. They want you to keep coming back even when you don't need to or want to, so they can keep billing unnecessary visits to your insurance. They will treat you like a cash-cow. I'm on a daily medication for anxiety. I have been for a few years now. And the doctor just would NOT write me three-month prescriptions or even month-long prescriptions with refills. No. Every 30 days, I needed to make an appointment, go in, participate in all the rigamarole of blood pressure, weighing, allergy questions, just so Doctor Yallapragada would send another 30-day script to my pharmacy. Every 30 days, and sometimes he couldn't even do that right! My previous prescription he wrote up wrong. It was supposed to be 50 mg tablets, and he wrote it for 25 mg tablets (not even at a doubled amount). My pharmacy noticed the change immediately, but it managed to be too hard of a detail for the experts at Yallapragada’s office. So either someone managed to misread a clear number on a chart, was just going from memory and had it wrong, or managed to make a careless mistake like this. And it took me over a week of phone calls to the office JUST to get a return call from my doctor to get it fixed. Everyone here is either lazy, incompetent, or both. Am I still going there? No. Because even after all that, I was willing to put up with this because the thought of going through my insurance to find another general practitioner spiked my already dangerous stress levels. No, they dropped ME, because every six months (and they sometimes made me do it even more frequently than that), I needed a physical and a blood test. Remember how hard I had to push to get an STI test? Yeah, they foisted so many needless blood tests for cholesterol and electrolytes on me, which involved an appointment at the office to get the Quest Diagnostics request order, another appointment for the blood test at Quest, and a third appointment several days later back at the doctor's office so he could read the results off to me. Then he'd prescribe me some new pill that I'd be allergic to and would wreck my body for two weeks. By the way, I still don't know if I have seasonal allergies, because despite all these physicals and blood tests their office makes me do, one time I voluntarily had a test for allergens in the air because I noticed I've been getting stuffier at seasonal changes than I used to. I don't know if I am though because he said he wasn't allowed to give me my results and I'd need to see a specialist, and he was going to set that up for me and never did. Meanwhile, I needed a physical every six months despite not being treated or helped on the tests I actually wanted and needed. And it was fine doing all these dumb physicals when I was a freelance worker and could set my own hours, but I have a 9-5 now. I told the receptionist last month that I can't be using 3 of my sick days every 6 months. I'm 30. I'm fine! I literally just have debilitating chronic anxiety that needs medicated maintenance. Also, I'm an adult. I should be allowed to decide what healthcare I receive and don't receive. I literally just need a pill every day for my anxiety, and this nonsense doesn't help that. But I need this prescription to function. It is a medical necessity for m

One of the best dr's I have seen. Doesn't prescribe medication unnecessary . Very calm, through and dedicated. Explains very well and detail oriented.

I've been seeing Dr.Yallapragada for 2 years and he and his office is the worst I've ever been to. His students constantly screw up my prescriptions. His secretary/nurse is the most inconsiderate person I've ever met. He never gives you refills so you have to keep going in to see him. His office never returns your phone calls.

MY HUSBAND WAS REFERRED AFTER A HOSPITAL STAY HE GAVE THE OFFICE ALL HIS INSURANCE INFORMATION ALSO HAD TO GO BACK AND GIVE THEM ALL THE INFORMATION AGAIN THEY DIDN'T BILL ALL HIS INSURANCE HE HAS 3 THEN 4 YEARS LATER WE GET A LETTER FROM A COLLECTION NO ONE AT THE OFFICE WILL ANSWER CALLS THIS IS A TERRIBLE WAY TO TREAT A SENIOR AND A RETIRED MILITARY MAN THIS HAS CAUSED MY HUSBAND BLOOD PRESSURE TO GO SKY HIGH I WOULD NEVER RECCOMMEND THIS PLACE NOT EVEN FOR A ANIMALE

Dr. Yallapragada is compassionate, knowledgable physician, he is now PCP for our whole extended family

I am very happy to have Dr. Yallapragada as my primary care physician. I was referred by one of our Church members with good recomendation. Sure enough our whole family and close friends are his very satisfied patients.

I got an immediate appointment with this doctor. He spent a long time with me during my first visit. He is very knowledgeable and took time to explain my condition to me and my husband. I recommended him to my sister-in-law. Staff was courteous.