On July 10, 2025, UAB Medical West, Birmingham, Alabama, entered into a $100,000 settlement agreement with OIG (United States Office Of Inspector General). The settlement agreement resolves allegations that UAB Medical West violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). Based on its investigation, OIG concluded that in May 2023, UAB Medical West failed to provide stabilizing treatment to a patient who presented to UAB Medical West’s freestanding Emergency Department (ED). Specifically, UAB Medical West diagnosed the patient with the emergency medical condition of acute urinary retention. UAB Medical West’s ED staff were unsuccessful in their attempts to catheterize the patient and failed to provide any pain relief. Although UAB Medical West had a urologist on-call for the freestanding ED, and access to specialized urology supplies at its main ED, UAB Medical West discharged the patient with instructions to drive himself to a different medical facility for a urology consultation and stabilizing treatment.br br I share my own experience as a patient and customer with UAB. IN 2020 I filed an EMTALA complaint with the Centers For Medicare And Medicaid Services against UAB Hospital (University Of Alabama At Birmingham) after going to their Emergency department in 2019 for what I believed was a broken skull or neck (I later discovered I had broken my skull, the injury can be seen in the images in the video other radiologists said no injuries appeared in, an injury I almost died from). I was triaged and waited 5 Hours before getting so tired I had to go home, I never saw a doctor. I observed other patients ask the front desk about the status of their admittance processing and saw them threatened they would be forced to leave the hospital if they asked again. I saw other patients who were waiting for over 10 hours. I repeatedly witnessed overdosing drug addicts and homeless off the streets admitted as I stood. In my hands I had the enclosed images from my past CT, X-Rays and MRI which show my injury I was prepared to show the doctors. Mosquitos flew through crowded lobby. The public water dispenser was not cleaned and had insects drop from the machine into my cup of water when I poured. The atmosphere of the ER was not professional and looked like a teenagers dorm room with fast food containers branded cups etc.. and pizza boxes on the same working areas where they running IV etc... br I believe I may have been "patient dumped" (a violation of EMTALA) and UAB may be mis-triaging potential patients and forcing them to wait so long they eventually leave. I share my other experiences with UAB: being put on a waiting list to see a neurologist for 3 months, only to be called near the appointment and told I would have to wait another month.