article_snippet.sent: Katie listened to Katie heart, even if it might hurt Katie lungs.
article_snippet.sent: The month after Dalton's surgery, UPMC discharged Katie -- Katie says they told Katie it would be psychologically good for Katie to get out for a while.
article_snippet.sent: When Katie had serious trouble breathing three days later Katie tried to get back into the hospital, but  UPMC informed Katie Katie'd used up Katie supply of Medicare days and wouldn't accept Katie.
article_snippet.sent: Medicare -- the federal insurance program for the elderly and for anyone with disabilities -- wouldn't pay for another hospitalization until Katie had been out of the hospital for sixty days.
article_snippet.sent: But Katie was too sick to stay out of the hospital for six days, much less sixty.
article_snippet.sent: So Katie relied on Medicaid, public insurance that was supplied by Katie home state of Kentucky.
article_snippet.sent: Katie was admitted to the University of Kentucky Hospital, where Katie was cared for by Anstead, Katie beloved pulmonologist.
article_snippet.sent: Katie doctors predicted Katie wouldn't live a year without new lungs.
article_snippet.sent: In February, Anstead wrote a letter to Medicaid, pleading with Medicaid to make an exception and pay for Katie's care at UPMC, even though it was out of state.
article_snippet.sent: UPMC wants to help Katie, and our physicians and staff have done everything possible to make that happen...
article_snippet.sent: Today, Katie waits in limbo in Katie hospital bed, hoping that the three parties -- Medicare, Medicaid, and UPMC -- will work things out so Katie can get Katie new lungs.
article_snippet.sent: If Katie doesn't get Katie transplant, not only will Katie die, but Katie'll never be near Katie husband again because of the risk that Katie could give her husband Katie infection, which could be deadly for her husband as her husband's on drugs to suppress her husband immune system.
article_snippet.sent: Katie says the Medicare representative told Katie Katie would look into Katie situation.
article_snippet.sent: Caught in the middle between the hospital and insurance, Katie tries to stay strong, just as Katie advised her husband to do nearly six years ago in their first Facebook conversation.
highlights_snippet.sent: Dalton received a lung transplant, but Katie is still waiting .