In a scan of recent (June, 2025) reviews posted online by former patients / customer of negligent radiologists Vulcan Imaging Associates, accusations of harassment and unprofessionalism continue to be made against the company, which regularly boasts 40+ medical doctors on its roster. <br /><br />UAB (University Of Alabama Birmingham) also continues to empower and give business to this outfit 6 months following closing its $450m+ USD business deal acquiring local area St. Vincent's hospitals from Ascension: a really bad sign for the future of healthcare in Alabama. This comes despite a growing public outcry regarding the bad business practices of this company & their MD's. <br /><br />A comment on Yelp backed up my own experience, claiming they don't return phone calls. In my own nightmare experience with these "professionals" I concluded that once they had my money, they were not interested in devoting time to discuss my situation. <br /><br />Recently Vulcan Imaging has began to sponsor events in the affluent areas / neighborhoods around Birmingham, AL. (including Greystone (280) & Mountain Brook). My conclusion is they are interested in servicing customers with good insurance and ignore patients with bad or no insurance. (I had no insurance when I was a patient of their doctors & was ignored & disrespected) <br /><br />My own experience confirmed their status among the lawless and unregulated landscape of the medical services sector around Birmingham, Alabama. A situation which has gone unchecked and thrived for many years. <br /><br />A review posted to Google at the end of 2024 relates Vulcan did an apparent "end run" and avoided contacting a patient's insurance, sending the bill directly to them. This may be a new tactic the outfit adopted after numerous settlements / judgements stemming from claims of insurance fraud. In another video I related a BBB (Better Business Bureau) account of a 100% disabled veteran who was hounded over a bill despite the fact he had 100% / full coverage due to his status. <br /><br />I was a patient of Vulcan Imaging MD Michael Brant Ruff who missed 6 inches of infection in my head / neck and evidence of a broken skull injury I almost died from in 2019. I include my April, 2022 call with Vulcan's Kim Mooney. She presides over 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.
