R1 RCM To Be Taken Private In $8.9 Billion Deal - Handled Broke Skull Negligence Bill For Ascension

Medical biller R1 RCM announced in August, 2024 TowerBrook Capital Partners and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) would acquire the healthcare technology company in a deal that values it at $8.9 billion USD. TowerBrook and nonprofit hospital operator Ascension Health were the company’s largest shareholders. Ascension (19 states / 140 hospitals, 160000+ associates & 36000+ affiliated providers) is R1 RCM''s top client.

I share a bill I received from R1 RCM Medical Financial Solutions PO BOX 42008 Phoenix AZ (Arizona) 85080-2008 USA for $2,185, stemming from a 4/22/19 ER visit at Saint Vincent East's Hospital (Ascension), Birmingham, Alabama. I would like the bill collector to see who they are collecting money for and for what reasons. I was misdiagnosed this visit, told I had no injury in the CT scans of my head and cervical neck regions (analysis was provided by Doctor Julian Patrick Druhan). I later obtained my records and found in the images that I had broken the underside of my skull, contrary to what I was told. I was later billed the above amount.

My own experience going to an Ascension ER in Birmingham, AL. in 2018-'19. I found that when my disposition was qualified as "self pay" (no insurance or stated source of income) I did not receive adequate medical treatment and was told no injuries appeared in X-Rays and CT that show I had broken my skull (an injury I almost died from - see images in video). Furthermore, you can hear in recorded phone calls in my other videos the lengths other professional doctors will go to support this fallacy. Millionaires who went to college for 10 years to do their jobs risked their professional reputations versus correcting mistakes.

I encountered far larger issues of medical fraud and corruption in my dealings with medical staff and facilities around the Birmingham, Alabama area in recent years. I believe much of the fortunes and millions / billions of dollars in profit enjoyed by Ascension and their associates are underpinned by a mountain of wrongfully treated patients who suffered at the hands of this medical provider's care. I almost did not survive multiple misdiagnoses I encountered going into their ER and attempts to have Ascension account and correct it errors were met with denials and excuses as to their responsibility. I highlight many of these, even recording phone exchanges in other videos on my Youtube Channel.

Between 2018-2019 I was an emergency department patient at Ascension St. Vincent’s East Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. I believe I had broken my neck. I had an X-Ray, 2 CT scans and later an MRI looked at by Ascension Vincent's doctors, each time they told me I had no injuries in this area. I knew their diagnosis was in error as my condition worsened. The area became infected and infested with parasites by summer 2019. I almost died.