Tag: lung transplant
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Lung transplant recipient who battled bureaucracy to get coverage, dies five days after being widowed; funeral Sunday
“Katie Prager, the Kentucky lung transplant recipient whose story with her late husband, Dalton, touched millions, has died,” reports Cheryl Truman of The Lexington Herald-Leader. Katie and Dalton met online...
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Kentucky woman finally gets lung transplants
After months of waiting, the 24-year-old woman who received national attention over her financial and policy battle with Medicare and Medicaid to get lung transplants has new lungs and is...
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Plight of woman needing lung transplant, who has fallen through the cracks of the health-care system, gets attention from CNN
Update: CNN reports that Kentucky issued a Medicaid provider number to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and the hospital confirmed that they now have enrolled in Kentucky Medicaid and...
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Woman needing lung transplant falls through cracks of health-care system, says she’s treated as nothing more than a ‘price tag’
Katie Prager, a 24-year-old cystic fibrosis patient from Ewing in Fleming County, needs a lung transplant, but has been denied one because she has met her lifetime maximum on Medicare,...
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UK Healthcare says it must get even bigger, and expand its market area, to provide needed services to Kentucky
By Molly Burchett and Al Cross Kentucky Health News The University of Kentucky‘s health-care system has grown by leaps and bounds in the last decade, becoming one of the state’s...
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First heart-lung transplant in Ky. in 15 years performed at UK
University of Kentucky surgeons performed Kentucky’s first combined heart-lung transplant in 15 years this summer, UK announced today. Dawn Nelson, 29, of Louisville, received two lungs and a heart from...
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UK surgeons first to do life-saving lung procedures in tandem
Surgeons at the University of Kentucky are the first in medical history to perform two procedures in tandem to bridge a lung transplantation. The procedures were performed first on Wanda...