article_snippet.sent: In December 2014, Katie was discharged from the Pittsburgh hospital after a long stay and returned to Kentucky, but began having trouble breathing three days later.
article_snippet.sent: the Pittsburgh hospital would not admit Katie because Medicare would not pay because Katie had used Katie lifetime maximum, the couple who put everything on the line when they first met in person in 2009 says.
article_snippet.sent: Katie will not be covered for the expensive out-of-state medical procedure again until Katie spends 60 consecutive days out of the Pittsburgh hospital.
article_snippet.sent: Katie was admitted into University of Kentucky Hospital, but it however, does not do transplants on patients with the kind of infection that Katie has. '
article_snippet.sent: Sixty days out of the Pittsburgh hospital is not an option for Katie anymore.
article_snippet.sent: Medicaid is also not an option as Medicaid will not cover Katie transplant due to UPMC being 'out of network',' Dalton wrote on the couple who put everything on the line when they first met in person in 2009's YouCaring page. '
article_snippet.sent: Katie said that Katie feels like efforts to get transferred to Pittsburgh are at a standstill and that something needs to be done. '
article_snippet.sent: In February, Dr. Michael Anstead who is Katie's pulmonologist at University of Kentucky, wrote a letter to Medicaid seeking for Medicaid to make an exception and pay for Katie's care in Pittsburgh, according to CNN.
article_snippet.sent: However, the hospital claims that Medicaid told them if them wanted to treat Katie, them would be required to sign up hundreds of doctors to accept Medicaid patients. '
article_snippet.sent: UPMC wants to help Katie, and our physicians and staff have done everything possible to make that happen...
article_snippet.sent: It is up to Medicaid to address this situation,' wrote spokeswoman Wendy Zellner.
article_snippet.sent: UPMC said the couple are want to help Katie but said UPMC is up to Medicaid to address this situation .
article_snippet.sent: While Katie seems to be caught in limbo, the director of the media relations group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said the director of the media relations group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are working to find a solution concerning Katie case by reaching out to the state agency.