Obviously, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland come to mind, although neither is very good at taking many insurance plans. (They don't have to--they are tertiary centers.) Mayo, of course, also has sattelite facilites in Jacksonville, Florida and the Phoenix, Arizona metro areas.

Others include the Jack Miller Center for Peripheral Neuropathy in Chicago, the Cornell Weill Center for Peripheral Neuropathy in New York (that is where I go), Massachusetts General Hospital/Medical Center in Boston, the Washington University Neuromuscular Center in St. Louis, Jackson ville Shands in Jacksonville, the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center . . .generally, you're looking for a major research hospital/center where there are facilities that specialize in nerve dysfunction, both peripheral and central. That is not to say one can't find a good diagnostic doctor in smaller clinical practice, but while these do exist, they tend to be very hard to find.

Some areas of the country seem to be severely lacking in neuropathy expertise--Billye's (Silverlady's) trials and tribulations trying to find good service even at the best medical centers in Texas are well documented on these boards (she just came back from Mayo in Minnesota) and I know people in the LA basin who can't seem to find anyone who has a clue about these conditions.