Dr. Ernest B. Visconti, MD

Wish I could give 0 stars. I've had nothing but problems the 3 times I went here to be treated. Summer of 2014 I was treated for Lyme but the medication made me sick, I could not get in contact with the doctor or staff, no emergency contact number at all while the doctor was on vacation. Fast forward to early December 2015, I called to see if they had the typhoid fever vaccine because I was going overseas, I mentioned to the woman at the front desk that I was going overseas and needed this vaccine, she even put me on hold to "check" if they had it and said yes and rushed me in the same day... Get to the office and the doctor tells me they don't carry travel vaccines. Wrote me a script to pick up the $95 vaccine. I refused to pay $95 since my insurance covers the vaccine, a few days later I went to a doctor who did have the vaccine in stock (despite being told there was a shortage, more lies from this office) and was only charged my co pay. The doctor and staff were trying to recommend me to go to Cornell in the city and pay $300 for the vaccine. No thanks. When the doctor confronted the woman at the front desk for misinforming me, she tried to pathetically deny it making up some strange vaccine name she "misheard" when she should've just apologized for giving me misinformation. I will never go back and advise anyone going there for infectious disease related visits to not go as well. Staff has no clue what they're doing, wait time takes forever (pretty sure they double or even triple book appointments). If you want quality service stay far away from here.

Dr. Visconti was my pediatrician and as well my oldest daughter plus more then h half of my family's to. Great doctor

Referred by a professional in the lyme disease community, my family made a three hour car trip to see Dr. Visconti and review my child's case. After a productive talk he ordered a battery of blood work to test for various lime disease indicators. However the process took three hours of waiting in his lobby, waiting in the room, waiting in the lobby again and then back in a room to take my child's blood. For one 5 year old boy it was a bit much, but for his sake we stuck it out. Then the following week had him into the Quest Diagnostic center to do the rest of the blood work, nearly fifteen vials in all, which was no picnic. Still, we are doing what we need to do to get my boy healthy again.

After the test results came in we contacted Dr. Visconti to get his opinion and put him in contact with our family pediatrician. As soon as Dr. Visconti realized that he would not be the primary care provider he ceased returning phone calls. For three weeks our family pediatrician has been trying to get him to pick up and send more than a fax back to her office.

I'm extremely angry that after finding that my child still has lyme disease, he has delayed giving my pediatrician any sort of guidance on next steps. We were perfectly happy paying him to be the specialist, that he purports to be, to help guide our pediatrician on treatment options. Now I still have a sick boy and no guidance. Avoid Dr. Visconti unless you want to keep making long drives to Staten Island, NY. He's obviously only interested in growing his personal practice instead of helping a sick child.

Dr.Visconti is a lifesaver.He saved my life a few years ago and diagnosed me and found what was wrong. Went to many doctors who could not figure it out and said nothing was wrong...Dr.Visconti was thorough and did not give up...It was rocky mountain spotted fever and Lymes disease. His office staff AlWAYS gave me top service as I live way out east on long island.....he was well worth the trip!....Kat