00:00If you're interested in the current state of affairs in the very corrupt medical industry in Birmingham, Alabama, yes, this
00:13needs immediate outside intervention.
00:16The authorities in the state of Alabama, in the cities, in the counties, they are not doing anything about this
00:25stuff.
00:27Corruption is the norm.
00:30I will direct you to this website.
00:33It's called Indeed.
00:36Now, what you can do here is, if you have worked at a company, any company, basically, any place of
00:48employment, you can leave a review about your experience there.
00:53And this also goes for medical practices, hospitals, doctors' offices, etc.
00:58I'll share a trick also about using the Indeed website.
01:03Once you type in the business or employer that you want to see the reviews on, they will display several.
01:16And then, after like six or seven reviews, you'll see that there may be hundreds or thousands of other reviews
01:26that you can't read because the body of the text has been blurred out.
01:35They want you to leave your review as an employee of the company to get access to read the other
01:43reviews.
01:43Well, there is a way around this, and I'll tell you how to do this.
01:47What you do is, the headlines to the reviews, you can read those.
01:56And you right-click your mouse button over the headline, open that as a new page or a new tab
02:06in your web browser, and you can read that review.
02:10And yeah, it's a bit tedious, but using this technique, you can read every single review that's left on the
02:20Indeed website without having to enter in any type of information.
02:25Okay, we go to Indeed and start typing in some of the names of these medical practices and hospitals, etc.
02:37And you will very quickly see, it's not just me, as a patient, relating these negative experiences.
02:46The actual people who work for these also have some stories to tell, and they can do so here more
02:56or less anonymously.
03:00If you're thinking about going to a medical practice in Birmingham, Alabama, go to Indeed and read the experiences of
03:10people who have worked in these places first.
03:13And some of these reviews are jaw-dropping.
03:18All right, American Family Care, AFC Urgent Care.
03:21They have several clinic locations across the Birmingham, Alabama area, and in other states.
03:33487 reviews on Indeed.com.
03:37I went through and read most of these, and what I can say is that the overwhelming majority of these
03:45employee reviews are negative.
03:47And, yeah, after reading through this stuff, I don't see how any company, especially a medical practice, can still be
03:59in business after being so negatively reviewed.
04:04I was a patient there in 2019.
04:07I had a very negative experience.
04:09I almost died from the injury that I had.
04:11And I will share that following reading through a couple of these reviews.
04:17I found two reviews that reference this item that I found details on, on the website of the FBI, the
04:30Federal Bureau of Investigation.
04:34American Family Care, Inc. to pay $1.2 million to settle allegations of inflated Medicare claims.
04:48American Family Care, Inc. has agreed to pay the government, that's the United States government, $1.2 million to resolve
04:58allegations under the False Claims Act
05:01that it knowingly submitted claims to Medicare for outpatient office visits that were billed at a higher rate than was
05:09appropriate.
05:11The Justice Department of the United States of America announced today, American Family Care is a network of walk-in
05:20medical clinics headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with offices in Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia.
05:29Quote, Mischarging the government for office visits wastes valuable government resources that could be used to care for other patient
05:37needs, said Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Civil Division.
05:42At a time of increasing concern about the cost of medical care, it is especially important to ensure that health
05:49care providers are not overbilling the government by improperly inflating their claims.
05:55So among the negative employee reviews that refer to this incident, I found this one.
06:08Quote, this company needs to be shut down immediately.
06:12Lab Tech, former employee, Tennessee, September 27, 2014.
06:18This company should be shut down for insurance fraud, which they have been sued for before, but it's still going
06:25on.
06:26The company is unprofessional in all kinds of ways.
06:29The corporate management and office management does not recognize their workers.
06:35They look down upon their workers, and the thing about it is they have never had any kind of medical
06:40background in their lives.
06:42The physicians that work have no idea what the heck they are doing.
06:48They look up demonstrations on YouTube to see how it's done.
06:52We have complained about a physician so many times to our manager and to our corporate office, and they will
07:00not do anything about it.
07:02Even when he is doing illegal practices and running up patients' insurance bills so he can have that physician's bonus.
07:10This company needs to be reported and shut down immediately.
07:15And I found this related employee review.
07:20Quote, corporate does not care about employees.
07:25Employee, former employee, Birmingham, Alabama, May 18, 2020.
07:30It is a constant battle between corp and clinics.
07:34The managers have so much piled on their plate every day, week, there's no time to get it done.
07:41Corp change manager from salary to hourly, and expect the same amount of work for them while they work.
07:49But God forbid working bare staff that an emergency come in because there is never enough staff to do anything.
07:59If AFC was financially broken, then why do they continue to expand in other states?
08:05It is just amazing how the owner builds a storage building behind the corporate office to hold his cars.
08:16And some, that is workers, have not gotten raises in three years.
08:21And if they do not stop overcharging for the COVID testing, the FBI will be back in like it was
08:28in 2012.
08:30So yes, please go check out the reviews of American Family Care Owned Indeed.
08:37You'll see some shocking things.
08:40And I really hope that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Alabama,
08:45the Department of Justice, Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch,
08:50the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
08:55and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which was involved in this 2014 litigation against AFC Urgent Care,
09:02watches my videos, and they need to look at this stuff and some of the other things that are out
09:08there,
09:08and they need to close this place permanently.
09:12So what happened to me?
09:13Yes, I was a patient at American Family Care, the Parkway East location in 2019.
09:23By 2019, they apparently still have not cleaned up their act or ascribed to professional business practices.
09:33I had an x-ray done at the clinic, $175.
09:38Cash.
09:41I was told that I had no injuries appear in my x-ray.
09:45I'll put the x-rays up here from the visit.
09:49I'll put up the medical records, and you can see this for yourself.
09:53I've shown this in many hours of video you can watch on my YouTube channel.
09:59My Medical Nightmare.
10:02The medical doctor that reviewed my x-ray was not located in the state of Alabama.
10:10This was telemedicine.
10:11Through Xperity, the doctor was Anna Maria Echnik, M-D-D-A-B-R.
10:19She said I had no injuries in the x-ray.
10:22The injury that I actually did have, I had broken the underside of my skull.
10:28And at the point where I had this x-ray taken,
10:33I had many, many months of infection that had set in in my upper neck
10:38and around the broken underside of my skull.
10:42I almost died from this injury.
10:45I was not very happy about what happened to me.
10:49I tried to get this corrected because I'm self-pay.
10:54I don't have insurance or a source of income.
10:59$175 is a lot to somebody like myself.
11:02I feel like I was ripped off.
11:07I tried to go into the clinic.
11:10I tried to talk to the doctors.
11:12I tried to call Xperity.
11:15I tried to call the supervising doctor, Christopher Blake Thomas,
11:21who's, last time I checked,
11:24practicing up on Highway 280 near Mountain Brook
11:28at the Acaba Village AFC location.
11:32He gives a false name out to people who call the clinic.
11:39And he says his name is Sadler.
11:41The other managers and staff of the AFC facilities,
11:45they also know this medical doctor as Sadler.
11:50S-A-D-D-L-E-R.
11:54False names and pseudonyms
11:56are used by the state of Alabama licensed medical practitioners.
12:01I believe that this violates ethics and possibly the law.
12:05So I've made the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners
12:10aware of my situation as well.
12:12But yeah, go up to My Medical Nightmare on YouTube.
12:16Read my interactions with all these people.
12:20I recorded my phone calls with AFC, with Xperity.
12:25I called the CEO of Xperity.
12:27Okay.
12:28Dr. David Stern.
12:29Yeah, this company is valued at over a billion dollars.
12:33None of the involved or associated parties,
12:36medical doctors, facilities, etc.
12:39will claim responsibility for the services that were provided to me.
12:47They won't acknowledge the injury.
12:49They won't correct their mistake.
12:52And this is not acceptable.
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