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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