Vague Birmingham Radiological Group Debt Collection Letters Omit Details To Limit Liability

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Part 1: A new customer / patient review in 2026 talks of their spouse receiving a vaguely detailed debt collections letter drafted by Birmingham Radiological Group. They report not receiving a bill for the requested amount ($160) previously or any previous correspondence from them. There's no date of service, facilities, doctors names or what was provided.   Following a first-hand nightmare patient / customer experience, I've done videos previously on the maliciously negligent & shady business practices of this 40+ MD group of Alabama based doctors who read MRI / CT scans & X-Rays.   According to United States Federal Law protections provided by The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), The following details should have been included in debt requests:  - The debt collector’s name and mailing information  - Name of creditor to whom the debt is owed  - Account number (if any) associated with the debt  - An itemized report of what you owe, including interest, fees, and payment activity  - Current amount of the debt  - Information about your debt collection rights as a consumer, including how to dispute the debt   When debt is a question, patients / customers can get a properly detailed / itemized bill from their providers by request within 30 days according to HIPAA guidelines.   The fact that so few details are given, fits with BRG's profile of evading liability. I've done videos on their partners including Grandview & American Health Imaging, who also hide behind anonymity, instructing their employees: health workers, to only give patients nicknames or fake names, despite the fact that they may discuss PHI or talk about injuries / medical procedures that will cost patients hundreds or thousands of dollars.   I did past videos on BRG's suspicious debt collections tactics which involve:  - double charging accounts  - sending debt to collectors after only 30 days  - not sending proper bills to patients before handing debt over to collectors  - sending bills for alleged procedures performed years prior to patients who are DECEASED.    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 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 in them I had broken the basilar area of my skull & several inches diameter of infection. You can see crack in the bone yourself in the images and over 100 hours of video as of 2026.   -I filed complaints against each doctor in 2021 (dismissed and thrown out unfairly by the Alabama Board Of Medical Examiners).

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00:00For all the details on what happened to me regarding my injury, we're pushing 100 hours

00:05plus of video now. YouTube channel My Medical Nightmare. All right, update on the business

00:11practices of Alabama-based Birmingham Radiological Group. They claim to have 45 radiologists on the

00:19payroll and are composed of doctors that examine MRI x-rays and CT imagery. Many doctors and

00:27medical practices in the Birmingham area rely on their services, and you may be surprised if you

00:32went to 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

00:47customer and patient of Birmingham Radiological Group in 2018 and 2019. I had three of their doctors

00:55look at MRI CT and x-ray of a major injury that I had in my head. I almost died from this. These

01:03doctors wrote in their reports that I had no injury present. I knew otherwise. Went and got the

01:09pictures. I'll put the pictures up here yet again. And what is clearly visible at this time when I was

01:16being told these falsehoods was that around six inches in diameter of infection appears inside my

01:24head. I'd actually broken my skull in the basilar area in the region of the occipital condyle and

01:30condylar canal. My issues are unresolved outstanding as it relates to Birmingham Radiological Group

01:37doctors, Angus Baird, MD, Julian Patrick Druhan, MD, and Donald Shane Kelly, MD. I called the CEO,

01:45Doyle Stewart, and he told me in a recorded phone call that he was not going to help me get my own

01:51images looked at again or to correct the errors of their doctors. Do some searches around the

01:57internet. Look at the reviews at the Better Business Bureau website. Look at the reviews on

02:03Google. Look at the reviews of the employees on Indeed.com, for example. There are more and more

02:09instances of people having problems with this company and their doctors. A new customer and patient

02:16review has been posted on January 13th. It reads, my husband received a debt collector letter for this

02:25group. He has received no bill for this amount or any previous correspondence from them. There's no date

02:33of service or what was provided. They just want him to pay $160 with no explanation in the letter.

02:42He does not recall using them unless it was from surgery performed at Grandview over one year ago.

02:52If you want to know how the Birmingham Radiological Group doctors do business, I've broken all this stuff

03:00down in videos over the years. Possibly here we have an example of phantom billing or balance billing,

03:09both very egregious examples of medical fraud. There's no itemized list of services, no time or date

03:20when medical services were rendered, no names of doctors or medical professionals, no name of the hospital

03:29or medical facility in which they were performed. Something the reviewer may be interested in looking into

03:37is a federal law called the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, FDCPA. If you read this and understand

03:48what information debt collectors are required to send, these include the debt collector's name and mailing

03:57information, name of creditor to whom the debt is owed, account number associated with the debt,

04:05an itemized report of what you owe, including interest, fees and payment activity, current amount of the

04:14debt, and information about your debt collection rights as a consumer, including how to dispute the

04:21debt. And again, it looks like many of these were left out of the letter they received. If I happen to

04:28receive this letter, I would demand to get an itemized bill proper from the hospital. According to HIPAA,

04:37the providers are required to send you this within 30 days upon request. Last year, I talked about some

04:45other cases involving the same doctors. I'll tell everybody a secret here. The reason why they send out

04:53these vague letters with just a few items of information in them is about deception number one,

05:03because these doctors are not professional or trustworthy, they avoid as much as possible the

05:10upfront and traditional business practices. So what they're doing here is they're attempting to avoid

05:17liability by putting their cards on the table. Every detail that criminal doctors put into writing, the patient

05:27who's been targeted or is being preyed upon to provide these sums of money, they can take that to a lawyer or an

05:36attorney, and they can challenge all this in a courtroom. Birmingham Radiological Group is known for sending out

05:43some really strange and suspicious collections letters and outright bills. The fact that the reviewer

05:52believes the collection may be from a surgery that happened more than a year ago, that's very suspicious.

06:01Recent trends show that these doctors will send unpaid bills to collectors after only 30 days.

06:10They're recorded as having sent some bills out to deceased patients and customers' families years following alleged medical procedures.

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