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.
00:10Thank you for calling American Health Imaging.
00:13To reach A-R-A-N-T-S-C-O-T-T, press 1, the party you are trying to reach is busy and cannot
00:25take your call.
00:27Please leave a message after the tone.
00:30Hello, sir.
00:30I was a patient at American Health Imaging 2019, and I had an MRI scan done.
00:37This was looked at by Birmingham Radiological Group, Dr. Angus Baird, MD.
00:43Oh, yeah, the facility was Birmingham, Alabama, American Health Imaging, downtown New York,
00:48UAB Hospital.
00:50So I was told in the report by this doctor that I had no injuries appear in my MRI.
00:56I knew this was not the case.
00:58I got a copy of my images, and I found out I was misdiagnosed.
01:03I had serious head trauma and evidence of a broken skull in the area of the vascular skull
01:10region, occipital, condyle, condylar, canal.
01:12And I've had a lot of problems trying to contact American Health Imaging and the doctors associated
01:21to possibly have this issue addressed, acknowledged, possibly have the imagery re-read or some kind
01:30of re-dressed in this situation.
01:32I was a self-paid patient, self-referred, $500 cash payment.
01:40And, yeah, I called American Health Imaging last week.
01:43I was hung up on in the Birmingham facility by a girl.
01:49Her name was Jessie.
01:50I tried to call AHI Corporate last week.
01:55I reached a call center in India, and I was told that someone would call me back.
02:01They took down my number, and I've not been contacted on this issue.
02:05Mr. Errant, I think you need to look into this, please.
02:09This is a very serious error.
02:12I called Birmingham Radiological Group.
02:15They tell me I've got to go through you.
02:16All right, courtesy the United States Attorney's Office, Northern District of Georgia, American
02:22Health Imaging and Scott Arendt to pay over $5 million to resolve allegations of health
02:29care kickbacks.
02:30This story is dated December 2nd, 2024.
02:35American Health Imaging, AHI, and its former founder and CEO, Scott W. Arendt, will pay the
02:43United States and the state of Georgia $5,250,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the
02:51False Claims Act by, one, providing physicians with meals, tickets to sporting events, and other
02:58gifts to induce those physicians to refer diagnostic scans to AHI's independent diagnostic testing
03:08facilities, and two, entering into above fair market value personal services agreements with
03:16referring physicians to induce those physicians to refer scans to AHI.
03:21The government alleges that between 2011 and 2019, AHI relied on a variety of inducements, sporting
03:30events, fishing trips, happy hours, sponsorships of open houses at physician offices.
03:38And gifts of alcohol, gas cards, and free scans to generate referrals for diagnostic scans.
03:46Many of AHI's events involve no discernible educational purpose.
03:51Examples include tickets to the SEC football championship game, tickets to concerts, monthly
03:57dinners with referral sources, and outings to nail salons.
04:02The government also alleges that AHI entered into personal services agreements with referring
04:08physicians that were above fair market value.
04:11Under these agreements, physicians were compensated to interpret the scans that they referred to
04:16AHI.
04:17Alright, so viewers to my channel will be well familiar with American Health Imaging.
04:23I tried to warn people about this company, which has branched out and expanded across the Birmingham,
04:30Alabama area in recent years.
04:33I was a patient and customer of American Health Imaging in 2019.
04:38They are affiliated locally with UAB St. Vincent's, formerly Ascension, and they used doctors with
04:47Birmingham Radiological Group locally.
04:49My opinion, if you had any dealings with American Health Imaging, you need to go back and check
04:55your stuff.
04:56Double check it, triple check it.
04:58These latest allegations, there's apparently some finessing and lubrication of their processes.
05:06This is yet another huge indication of corruption.
05:09And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
05:11This stuff is endemically corrupt, through and through.
05:16You can go look at my videos on my channel to get some ideas about some of the others involved
05:21in these scams.
05:22Do not trust American Health Imaging.
05:24Do not trust their partners.
05:26After discovering I was misdiagnosed by Dr. Angus Baird, MD, I took this matter to the
05:34CEO of Birmingham Radiological Group, which oversees around 50 doctors.
05:40They would not put me in contact with this member doctor or help me in any way to resolve
05:46my own issues.
05:46I filed a complaint against Angus Baird stemming from my own case with Alabama Board of Medical
05:54Examiners and Licensure Commission.
05:57That complaint was thrown out, dismissed, despite the fact that I sent in the original images,
06:04which clearly show the injury in my head, versus the written report of this doctor, which claims
06:10I have no injury.
06:11Alright, so in this call I attempt to contact radiologist Angus Baird, MD.
06:20And this doctor, he read an MRI scan that I had done at American Health Imaging in Birmingham,
06:30Alabama, May 15, 2019.
06:36This cost $500 cash.
06:40So in this scan I was told that no injuries appeared.
06:43However, if you look at the images, you'll see that I have signs of head trauma.
06:52And I believe that I broke a bone in the underside of my skull.
06:57That's the basilar area occipital condyle, condylar canal region.
07:03And you may be able to see infection in this area.
07:09And the pain in this area, this is the reason that I had this MRI scan done.
07:14It was missed by this radiologist.
07:17Alright, so the phone number I found, it leads to Birmingham Radiological Group.
07:24And they tell me they can't connect me directly to the doctor and I should call American Health
07:31Imaging, where I had the MRI scan done.
07:36So here I call American Health Imaging, Birmingham, Alabama.
07:42And although I had this scan done in 2019, this receptionist tells me that they don't deal
07:51with those doctors anymore.
07:53And yeah, I wonder why.
07:55I might actually know the reason.
07:59Tells me that I will have to go through another doctor.
08:03We have another MRI scan and I paid $500 for this one already in order for them to do some
08:13kind of procedure and have this scan looked at again.
08:20And yes, I do not believe the statement that I'm giving here is correct.
08:24I paid for this service, the MRI scan itself, and the radiologist report.
08:32Injuries show up in the pictures.
08:35The doctor did not acknowledge the injury.
08:41And then a bit of an argument ensues and I was hung up on by this call agent from American
08:49Health Imaging.
08:50So prospective customers out there, clients and business partners, apparently they don't
08:58stand behind their work.
09:01Yeah, and I mean, you know, my experience doing with this, run around and excuses.
09:08You can see everything that happened to me regarding this issue.
09:12It's on my YouTube channel, My Medical Nightmare.
09:15Thank you for calling American Health Imaging.
09:20This is Jesse.
09:21How can I help you?
09:22Yes, ma'am.
09:23I was a patient at AHI in 2019.
09:26I had an MRI scan done.
09:28I had an injury show up in an MRI and I got a doctor's report saying no injury was present.
09:35I need to try to talk to somebody about having this MRI scan looked at again, please.
09:40So your doctor will have to request that we can...
09:45Okay.
09:46I was told to call you guys to get in touch with the doctor, Dr. Angus Baird.
09:50Um, he doesn't, he doesn't work here no more.
09:54That's an old radiologist.
09:56We don't use those radiologists anymore.
09:58So again, like the doctor that referred you, um, or just a doctor, a new doctor you're going
10:05to now, you could have them, um, have a new MRI done and they can do a, um, what is
10:16that, what is it called?
10:18Yeah.
10:19They can have an addendum done.
10:20Okay.
10:21Well, I have a problem with an MRI that was taken, uh, that I paid money to you guys for,
10:26uh, that, uh, I got a report that said I had no injuries and the injury shows up in this
10:31MRI.
10:32I need to try to get in touch with that, uh, doctor, please.
10:35Okay.
10:36So what I'm telling you is you can have your doctor that referred you to...
10:40Well, I don't, I don't need a doctor.
10:41I'm, I'm calling you guys to get in touch with a doctor directly.
10:44If you would listen, I'm trying to tell you that...
10:48You have to say something intelligible first, madam.
10:51I'm trying to explain to you how you can have this done.
10:55Okay.
10:56I was told to call you guys.
10:57I was told to call you guys and you would get me in touch with the doctor.
11:00Nice and empty.
11:02Okay.
11:03You know what, this is the acting therapist?
11:04Quite a bunch of, you know, comics, dogs, you know,igkeiten, counsellors.
11:06OK.
11:09I listened to those who touched the camera on people, man.
11:10Exactly.
11:11Do what I got.
11:12Now, Dr.
11:13Yes, you should 11 people.
11:14You should have fallen pressure or, you should have more chocolate items.
11:17And that's it...
11:18No.
11:19Go over on them.
11:20You should have gravitation.
11:22Yes, you should have fallen pressure.
11:23Yeah.
11:24I'll preserve your brain.
11:25My heart.
11:26No.
11:27I'm a doctor.
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