Dr. Kenneth Kopacz, MD

Dr Kopacz is the best! I had a cyst in my spine that was causing extreme pain. 2 surgeons wanted to replace my disc, they said the cyst would keep growing back unless the disc was fused. Dr Kopacz just took out the cyst, its 10 years later, the cyst never grew back. I would trust him with any surgery.

He performed a lumbar fusion on me in 2002 and absolutely ruined me! At the 3 and 6 months visit I had severe pain and finally at the 9 month visit he LISTENED to me and ordered a CT scan which showed a “non-union” which means failed back surgery. I ended up going to HSS in New York but they’ve never been able to get me pain-free and for 21 years I’ve had chronic back pain and I am on disability. The thing that angered me the most is that the doctor did NOT LISTEN to me. I understand that bad outcomes happen but listen to your patients! This review is many years late but I couldn’t write it sooner because I was in so much pain. I just had an epidural in my lower back 10 days ago so I thought it was time I write the review. I am posting under another name but I am a very real person.

He sells his opinion to insurance companies to deny medically necessary treatment for patiuents he has never seen.

I needed spinal surgery. I’ve been suffering tremendously. After two failed discectomy’s they wanted to do the same a third time. The L4 L5 was shot plus a few other discs are bulging by now. When I got the MRI, I sought out a second opinion and that’s how I found my “ROCK STAR” SPINAL SURGEON, DR. KENNETH KOPACZ -South Orange Ave, Livingston ~! I literally begged Dr Kopacz to help me. I was at my wits end. I never get depressed. But this was starting to take me down. Dr K explained how he would help. In layman’s terms….. He removed my L4- fused nerves, then put a cage around my whole lumbar then turned me over and put a cage and screws in my back. It really sounds bad and it probably is but these two surgeons together are incredible together and I can’t believe how good I feel. Dr Kopacz’ scheduler, Vanessa DaCosta had the absolute best personality! She was kind, compassionate & patient. She returned every phone call- I never had to call her twice. That’s rare!

Very kind and gentle. Extremely knowledgeable! Took a lot of time to explain things to me.

I Had spinal fusion in 2006 performed doctor kopacz and his partner dr Lee.the surgery was a nightmare! 6months after ive gotten the surgery i was in more pain then i was before i got the surgery. i can feel all four screws that were put in my lower back. he lied to me then he discharged me to make a long story short i never recovered from the pain which is worse and i had to go on ssd . im in pain 24-7 cant work depressed and stucked meds.i was 29 years old when i got the surgery im now 38.