BBB Complaint: Birmingham Radiological Group Erroneously Bills Patients After They Have Died!

A Better Business Bureau complaint from 2023 confirms Birmingham Radiological Group erroneously sends bills to patient families for procedures performed after they have died! The complainant spouse mentions this was for a scan performed in December, 2022 although the patient in question has been deceased for several years. Multiple attempts to correct this issue (and obligations made by BRG) have not been successful.

My own experience as a misdiagnosed patient (by 3 of their doctors (Julian Patrick Druhan MD, Donald Shane Kelly MD, Angus Baird) missed broken bone in the underside of my skull in 4 separate scans). When I confronted BRG CEO Doyle Stewart with evidence of his doctors misdiagnosing me, I was mocked and led into a circular, dead end argument with word games. They refused to correct their doctors errors or place me in contact with the doctors. My phone call was recorded can be heard in other videos. Ascension & American Health Imaging have also refused to correct negligence in my case worth millions of dollars.

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.

BRG compliance officer Shannon Sykes replied on their behalf in my own BBB complaint. Again, she has no medical qualifications. According to internet sources, BRG makes around 10 million dollars revenue annually. In an organization of this size, it should be common practice that any such statement be passed through legal counsel and signed off on by a medical doctor, but why does such a person not represent them here?

Why do these doctors go by different names on the BRG website than appear on their state issued Alabama medical licenses or in medical records?

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