OrthoAlabama Demands Credit Card On-File Prior To Post-Op Exam (With No Balance Or Co-Pay)

Patient concerns over the changes at OrthoAlabama Spine & Sports continues following the retirement of 50-year orthopedic surgeon Perry Savage Sr. Son, P. Lauren Savage is believed to be running the practice now. A new review from July 14th, 2026 relates:

"After I drove an hour for a post-op appointment, they refused to see me if I didn't put a credit card on. I had no balance or copay for the visit. To demand open access to someone's credit card should be illegal, and to not call me in advance to tell me about this new policy is completely unprofessional. For them to have collected tens of thousands of dollars from my insurance company and then refuse my post-op appointment is unethical. Do yourself a favor and go elsewhere."

Run down of issues with my Dr. Perry L. Savage Sr. / OrthoAlabama Spine & Sports (1801 Gadsden Hwy, Birmingham, AL - near Trussville) 9/14/2019 $300 (CASH) exam:

- Appointment at 3pm, I sat in the waiting room 2 hours. Walked out of the place near 6pm.
-Waiting area does not offer patient customer privacy (or security). A crude half wall / Chinese screen curtain separates patients from the sign in area where 4+ patients at one time give their personal details. Customers can be heard giving phi details (HIPAA) in the general waiting area adjacent to this section.
- I presented images of my own head (CT / MRI / X-RAY) (PRINTED OUT & ON DVD), clearly showing the issues (head trauma) which were not acknowledged by this 50 year professional, who graduated from The University Of Alabama School Of Medicine in 1968. I showed many of these images to Savage on the pc in the exam room and was told they were normal and showed no injuries. I paid this man $300 for his experienced opinion.
-Savage told me & noted in my chart my images were too low of quality to make a determination on any injury being present. In new findings in 2026 (SEE VIDEO), an analysis of those same pictures not only spotted fractured bone (in the C1 atlas of my neck) but contradicted Savages claim, I was told: "THE IMAGE IS A HIGH-RESOLUTION BONE ALGORITHM SLICE, WHICH IS APPROPRIATE FOR EVALUATIING OSSEOUS (BONE) INTEGRITY". Savage also told me several inch diameter infection surrounding the injury in other MRI images were normal, containing no injury.
-Physician Assistant Ben Jeter P.A.-C. sat in during this exam. He entered the room and never introduced himself. Dr. Savage never introduced him to me as well (not professional).
-When Savage wasn't looking at my CT, X-Ray and MRI images on the exam room PC, Jeter thumbed through the images. I showed the doctor a few of the frames containing my 3 inch diameter basilar skull damage and was told no injury appeared there even as I sat struggling to hold my head up on my shoulders after waiting 2 hours to see him.