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Update on the unprofessional business practices of Birmingham, Alabama-based Birmingham Radiological Group. They claim 40+ doctors on their payroll. A new patient / customer review (January, 2025) posted to Google claims BRG sent them a notice of intent to send their $30 bill to collections after only 30 days. This breaks with the medical industry norm of waiting between 90-180 days before sending bills to collectors. As a former patient / customer with outstanding / unresolved issues stemming from a broken skull injury I almost died from in 2019 (they would not help me to correct OR ACKNOWLEDGE their doctor's errors), my own analysis is that:
People are becoming aware of their fraudulent practices and challenging their errors so this latest move is a play on their part to get people's money FASTER - before they have a chance to realize they may have had bad work done for them.

Ascension's health system (142,000 employees and 142 hospitals across USA) is at the center of what may be the largest medical corruption case in U.S. history. They have empowered doctors, hospitals and partners with authority and privileges (and million dollar salaries) to operate that should not even be allowed to push a mop or broom in a professional medical setting or around those seeking medical treatment.

Birmingham, Alabama is no stranger to medical scandal, having played host to the Healthsouth debacle nearly 20 years ago but a far greater one is gathering strength, it involves patients being dumped, not receiving service (even-after paying), medical fraud, purposeful misdiagonosis and non-accountabilty after the fact. Radiology is a major chokepoint in local corruption. I share my experience as a patient dealing with 50+ doctor organization: Birmingham Radiological Group. Their response to my Better Business Bureau complaint should be required reading for any patient who deals with their doctors and any MD or business partner who interested in working with them.

Birmingham Radiological Group (Alabama) appointed Shannon Sykes (who holds no medical qualifications or certifications) through which to issue a rebuttal to my Better Business Bureau (BBB) complaint as a consumer. The group's title appears on the top of a bill for one of these medical scans in 2019. 3 member doctors of this group (Julian Patrick Druhan MD, Angus Baird MD and Donald Shane Kelly MD), radiologists, misdiagnosed medical image scans (X-Rays, CT Scans & MRI scans I had done between 2018-2019 at Saint Vincent's East Hospital (Ascension) & American Health Imaging). I went into the emergency room and to doctors believing I had broken my neck or skull. The doctors took these scans and typed up in official records I had no injury. I obtained the images and written records later and found I had broken the basilar area of my skull.
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00:00All right, as always, you can go to YouTube channel My Medical Nightmare and see 40 plus
00:07hours video on everything that happened to me. All right, update on the business practices
00:12of Alabama-based Birmingham Radiological Group. They claim to have 45 radiologists on the payroll
00:20and are composed of doctors that examine MRI, x-rays, and CT imagery. Many doctors and medical
00:27practices in the Birmingham area rely on their services, and you may be surprised if you went
00:33to see a doctor and had an MRI, CT, or x-ray in the Birmingham area. A BRG, Birmingham Radiological
00:41Group doctor, may have examined your images, and you may not be aware of it until later. I was a
00:48customer and patient of Birmingham Radiological Group in 2018 and 2019. I had three of their
00:55doctors look at MRI, CT, and x-ray of a major injury that I had in my head. I almost died
01:02from this. These doctors wrote in their reports that I had no injury present. I knew otherwise.
01:08Went and got the pictures. I'll put the pictures up here yet again. And what is clearly visible
01:14at this time when I was being told these falsehoods was that around six inches in diameter of infection
01:22appears inside my head. I'd actually broken my skull in the basilar area in the region of the
01:29occipital condyle and condular canal. My issues are unresolved outstanding as it relates to
01:35Birmingham Radiological Group doctors, Angus Baird, MD, Julian Patrick Druhan, MD, and Donald Shane
01:43Kelly, MD. In my own case, they were doing work for American Health Imaging and St. Vincent's
01:50Hospital then owned by Ascension. Recently, this has been rebranded and acquired by UAB University
01:58of Alabama at Birmingham. Later in the video, I'll go into detail more about what happened to me.
02:04All right, if you type in Birmingham Radiological Group into the Google search engine, look on the
02:10right-hand side of the search results and find where it says reviews. Click on the reviews, clarify your
02:18search terms to show the newest or most recent reviews. And you'll find this one. This video is
02:25being recorded February 8th, 2025. According to Google, this review was posted one month ago. And
02:32this is apparently a customer and patient with BRG. And they write here, quote, sending a red bill
02:40threatening collections for a $29 bill that is 30 days old, bizarre behavior, unquote. I did some
02:47research and apparently the medical industry norm for sending bills to collections, 90 and 180 days.
02:56And this is according to CNBC. So this practice, I believe, is unprofessional. My own personal
03:02experience, Birmingham Radiological Group and their doctors, they are not trustworthy. They're not
03:08professional. I called the CEO, Doyle Stewart, and he told me in a recorded phone call that he was not
03:14going to help me get my own images looked at again or to correct the errors of their doctors. Do some
03:21searches around the internet. Look at the reviews at the Better Business Bureau website. Look at the
03:27reviews on Google. Look at the reviews of the employees on Indeed.com, for example. There are more and more
03:33instances of people having problems with this company and their doctors. This is a new business
03:40practice of theirs. What it signals to me is a lot of people are becoming aware of their scams.
03:46They're trying to get your money faster and faster. And such as in my case, where the radiologist missed
03:52major obvious injuries, maybe before you have a chance to realize they did some bad work for you.
03:58Birmingham, Alabama is no stranger to nationwide corruption cases in the medical business sector.
04:08This city is where the HealthSouth scandal played out nearly 20 years ago. But there is a far greater
04:17medical corruption matter brewing, and it involves the Ascension healthcare system. According to
04:25Wikipedia, they operate 2,600 healthcare sites in 19 states and Washington, D.C. and the United States of
04:35America, including 142 hospitals. They employ 142,000 people as of 2021. Ascension is a large medical industry
04:49player in the Birmingham, Alabama area. And thanks to Ascension, they have given privileges for people to
04:58operate as doctors, nurses, and other medical staff who have no business going near a mop and a broom in a
05:09doctor's office or a hospital. Patients who wind up in Ascension facilities and in front of Ascension
05:17employees who are indigent have no source of income or insurance are especially vulnerable and they're
05:26being taken advantage of. They're routinely paying what little money they can come up with for a medical
05:33examination and they're getting patient dumped and misdiagnosed on purpose regularly. This is medical
05:42fraud. There's criminal conspiracy involved. And around Birmingham, you'll find many private medical
05:50businesses who owe their existence solely to business generated through Ascension and their various
06:00other holdings, including St. Vincent's Hospital. I was a patient at Ascension St. Vincent's East
06:07Hospital in 2019. And I found myself a victim of a string of unexplainable misdiagnoses, as well as
06:19patient dumping. When I took these issues to the doctors, I found that the radiological organizations
06:28for which the radiology specialists work are a major corruption choke point in what I've just
06:38explained. Ascension and the radiological groups would not place me in contact with the doctors
06:45directly, which they should have, to clear up these issues. In my case, I broke the underside of my skull.
06:53I had four scans done, x-ray, CT, and MRI. The scans were looked at by three state of Alabama licensed
07:03medical doctors for Birmingham Radiological Group. The pictures were taken. The doctors looked at the
07:11images, issued their reports. They wrote down with their signature affixed. The no injuries appeared.
07:19The diagnosis did not sit right with me, because every time I would move my head just a little bit,
07:27there would be incredible pain and crunching bone. I went and got my medical records and those pictures.
07:35I'll put them in this video again. What you can see in these images is I had broken the underside of my
07:42skull. Misdiagnosed from the outset, close to a year later, infection set up around the main wound that
07:50was unacknowledged. Almost died from this injury. There are other patients out there like myself who are
07:58in the process of fighting ascension. I just want to take this opportunity to post again my complaint
08:07to the Better Business Bureau. So this exchange is documented through a third party. It's not hearsay.
08:15Birmingham Radiological Group, look what they wrote in response to my concerns. The woman they had
08:23issued this response, Shannon Sykes, also possesses no medical credentials or qualifications
08:31in the state of Alabama. And she did not name a so licensed individual to back up her statement.
08:40And this is very concerning and telling. Again, they've got 50 doctors on the payroll.
08:47Somebody has a question about an erroneous report that shows a very serious head trauma based injuries
08:54that somebody could easily die from. And read carefully their response. And this response alone,
09:02this should cost Birmingham Radiological Group their operating license. And the individual
09:08doctors involved should also be punished. That's my belief.
09:14Thank you for calling Birmingham Radiological Group.
09:18Birmingham Radiological Group, may I direct your call?
09:21Yes, sir. I'm trying to have an MRI sequence re-read. I had an injury show up in an MRI that
09:30one of your doctors looked at. I need to have this looked at again, please.
09:36Okay, what facility or hospital did you have your MRI done?
09:40Okay, this would be American Health Imaging. And the doctor's name was Angus Baird, MD.
09:47Okay, well, let me connect you with our office manager.
09:53May I help you?
09:55Yes, ma'am. Who am I speaking to?
09:58Matthew Bergen.
09:59Okay, thank you very much. Yes, ma'am. I was a patient of one of your doctors. I'm trying to have an MRI
10:07sequence re-read. An injury appeared in this MRI. And I need to have the doctor take a look at it again, please.
10:15Okay, and what's your account number?
10:19This MRI that I'm calling about today, this was done at American Health Imaging.
10:25Okay, I don't handle American Health Imaging. I'm sorry, you have the wrong number.
10:30How do I get in touch with Angus Baird, MD? Because his phone number leads to you guys.
10:35Yeah, he is one of our doctors, but you'll have to contact him through AHI.
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