August 21, 2025: In new back to back reviews patients & customers report Birmingham, Alabama-based Birmingham Radiological Group has double charged them for services (PHANTOM BILLING). They claim 40+ doctors on their payroll. In a review dated 3 weeks ago a patient writes: <br /><br />"I can't speak to their service as no one ever answers the phone. I have left voicemails every day for more than a week regarding a duplicate charge to my bank account and no one has ever called me back." BRG replied to this with a new phone contact to which the patient amended their port: <br /><br />"They replied to my review with an additional phone number that isn't in service. <br /><br />The next review dated Aug. 20th reads: "Didn’t send me a full refund from something I paid twice because they claimed I had stuff from the previous year not paid when I know for a fact I’ve paid all the statements I received." <br /><br />As a former patient / customer with outstanding / unresolved issues stemming from a broken skull injury I almost died from in 2019 (they would not help me to correct OR ACKNOWLEDGE their doctor's errors), my own analysis is that: People are becoming aware of their fraudulent practices and challenging their errors. <br /><br />The Ascension / UAB / St. Vincent's health system is at the center of what may be the largest medical corruption case in U.S. history. They have empowered doctors, hospitals and partners with authority and privileges (and million dollar salaries) to operate that should not even be allowed to push a mop or broom in a professional medical setting or around those seeking medical treatment. <br /><br />Birmingham, Alabama is no stranger to medical scandal, having played host to the Healthsouth debacle nearly 20 years ago but a far greater one is gathering strength, it involves patients being dumped, not receiving service (even-after paying), medical fraud, purposeful misdiagonosis and non-accountabilty after the fact. Radiology is a major chokepoint in local corruption. I share my experience as a patient dealing with 50+ doctor organization: Birmingham Radiological Group. Their response to my Better Business Bureau complaint should be required reading for any patient who deals with their doctors and any MD or business partner who interested in working with them. <br /><br />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).
