It seems to be, i my opinion ,that if you have not been an on going client , you can not get in for 3 months.Called on a tuesday with symptoms?? told, have to get ok form insurance to be seen??Never called back had to call myself 3mts to get in . I am glade they are so busy > how about you clients welfare.??find a smaller group these guy dont care....

Dr. Blankenbaker is caring, knowledgeable, and friendly. He takes whatever time is needed to discuss my issues, and I appreciate that. He is also conservative in his recommendations.

Dr Blankenbaker is a competent and nice physician however.....I was not pleased when I was told because of an outstanding balance I had with his office they refused to see me in office or refill my vital medications until I paid half the balance in full. Now I understand that Doctors need to get paid but they billed my insurance, so they got paid something, and I would have and tried to make arrangements to pay the out of pocket balance I had with them. They wanted half in cash upfront before they would see me or make me an appointment. That came to $350 and I could not afford that. I have never been just dropped by a physician like this for inability to pay out of pocket expense. I had a life threatening episode of Afib about a year ago the doc was treating me for and recently I have been having heart palpitations again and needed to get checked out to make sure everything is okay and to get medications refilled. Now I have to find a new cardiologist because even though I offered to give them $150 in cash as a good faith payment, in addition to my co pay for the office visit, that was not good enough.....So go see Dr.Blankenbaker. He is a good Cardiologist. Just dont owe them money or if you do pay it off immediately or you may run out of your medication and not be able to get a refill.

Dr. Blankenbaker was the first cardiologist I ever saw at Newport Heart. I instantly liked him because of my phobia of doctors in general. He was kind, accommodating, and honest. I figured he would be my cardiologist forever. But, he left California and I was forced to find a new cardiologist. I met Dr. O’Bryan at Newport Heart, and I was grateful that I had found a doctor who cared as much—perhaps more—about my health.So...when my wife started to have cardiac problems, I naively suggested that she should see Dr. Blankenbaker, who had (for whatever reasons) come back to California.At first, he was extremely accommodating. But after our initial visit—and clearly without a remedy for too many weeks waiting for him to mitigate my wife’s BP problems—we threw up our hands and decided to go elsewhere. I hope your own experience is better than ours. I truly believe in Dr. Blankenbaker. But I feel his priorities in his patient’s lives have changed.

Blankenbaker is awesome.