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According to a March 24th, 2026 complaint posted to The Better Business Bureau website: Vulcan Imaging Associates reviewed x-ray images for her son:

"they sent duplicate claims to my insurance for the same amount. I never received a bill for anything that was not processed or paid. They sent a collection agency notification to my home address, but never provided a bill. My insurance paid this claim, however, they did not pay the duplicate claim. I am receiving a collections notice on their duplicate claim.

This may be considered as an example of Phantom Billing (possible fraud).
I've done videos on billing issues involving these doctors in the past.

I had dealings with both Vulcan & CHC as a patient and customer in 2019 & share my very negative experience. My issues are unresolved / outstanding as of February, 2026.

Please see my several hours video on my 2019 MRI done by their radiologist Michael Brant Ruff at the below Yootoob channel (mymedicalnightmare) (search Vulcan & Ruff in the box). I had a broken skull injury I almost died from - 3 inch long insects & worms grew in the wound (SEE X-RAYS / MRI / CT IN VIDEOS). The MD wrote no injury appeared in an image review that showed 6 inches diameter infection in my head / neck area exactly the area to be examined, where I reported pain. Hear my call where Vulcan would not do anything to help me get their error corrected. The injury may cost over $1,000,000 USD to treat.

My call with Kim Mooney, Administrative Coordinator of Birmingham Alabama-based Vulcan Imaging Associates, who has 37 radiologists doctors in their group. I was told by Mooney that they "100% Stand By" a report of their radiologist who missed serious injuries in the MRI. She did not elaborate on who "they" were however. Mooney does not possess a medical license. I was also told they do not consult with patients and there was nothing their company could do in regards to my request to have a 2019 MRI scan reread, in which their doctor Michael Brant Ruff, stated I had no injuries and in which evidence of around 6 inches head trauma and infection can be observed. They would not put me in contact with the doctor or attempt to correct the error of their doctor.

My attempt to call (University Of Tennessee honors graduate) Neuroradiology specialist Dr. Michael Brant Ruff MD (Vulcan Imaging). I'm a patient attempting to have a misdiagnosed MRI reread (Broken Skull). The truth of my issue is I had broken the underside of my skull, over about a year the wound became infected and infested with some type of parasite. I received a $600 bill from (Ascension) St. Vincent's Ambulatory Healthcare Network LLC in 2019 for this scan, I was told no injuries appeared here. Subsequent to this, between 2018-2019 I had several X-Rays and CT scans through Saint Vincent's East Hospital Birmingham AL., in which I was told no injury appeared. When I obtained my medical records of these scans, however, broken bone appears clearly in the underside of my sk
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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, new patient and customer
00:11complaint posted to the Better Business Bureau website. This is for 50 doctor strong radiological
00:20company, Vulcan Imaging Associates. These doctors now have more trouble than they've ever seen
00:28simply because of what happened in my case. I'll go into my own patient experience with one of their
00:36doctors later on in the video. But in a new review that was published on March 24th, 2026,
00:46this individual writes, my son is a college athlete and had x-rays and this was the provider
00:55that reviewed. They sent duplicate claims to my insurance for the same amount. I never received
01:03a bill for anything that was not processed or paid. They sent a collection agency notification
01:11to my home address but never provided a bill. My insurance paid this claim. However, they did not
01:19pay the duplicate claim. I am receiving a collections notice on their duplicate claim. This individual
01:28describes an example of phantom billing. Please do some research on Vulcan Imaging Associates. You can look at
01:38the reviews posted to Google and yes, we have done videos on this type of billing issue with these doctors
01:49in the past. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rate this type of billing as a possible
01:58example of fraud. Yeah, as others have reported, you try to talk to this company in person and you're
02:07looking at a potentially a very futile and unsettling experience. Very, very rude is how people describe
02:16dealing with their representatives. When I brought my own issues to Vulcan, I was told to consult
02:26an attorney but actually I've done better than that now. I was a patient customer of a Vulcan Imaging
02:33Associates doctor and I'll go into my own situation with what happened to me. I had an MRI of my
02:41head
02:41handled by Vulcan Imaging Associates and St. Vincent's in Trustville, now UAB, in 2019. In my own scan,
02:51I was told I had no injuries. I knew better because I was close to death. Almost died from this.
02:57Went and got
02:58those pictures. I'll put the pictures up here in this video. As you can see in this MRI, I've got
03:03about six inches diameter infection inside my head. Vulcan Imaging Associates, Neuroradiological
03:11specialist doctor, Michael Brandt Ruff, MD, went to school for 10 years to do his job and he wrote in
03:20my records and report, which you can see in this video also, I scanned these in. He said I had
03:26no injury
03:26present and so this created a very uncomfortable situation that has yet to be resolved and is
03:34outstanding as of this recording, April 4th, 2025. I took these issues to basically all concerned
03:45and they all refused to correct their error, admit their mistake, do a reread. Oh yeah,
03:52and they sent me a bill for this MRI and it was somewhere north of $600. Interestingly, Vulcan was
04:00working with St. Vincent's Ascension who did the scan for me. On November 1st, 2024, Ascension sold
04:10this location and five other hospitals to University of Alabama at Birmingham and this whole system has
04:17been rebranded UAB St. Vincent's. Why did Ascension sell and leave the area? My story is definitely
04:24something that the public needs to be aware of because the practices that were allowed to occur
04:30in the St. Vincent's hospitals and medical facilities were probably enough to shut this place down. Just a
04:37personal perspective, my injury and all the complications, my own issue is worth several million dollars.
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