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Chicago mom fought Lurie Children’s Hospital for 3 years to get overbilling for newborn reversed

Illinois law bars insurers from charging out-of-network rates for neonatal care at in-network hospitals. But that didn’t keep it from happening to Brenna Kearney and her husband Casey Trumble. Only a reporter’s questions got things fixed.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jan 31, 2023

A baby spent 36 days at an in-network hospital. Why did her parents get a huge bill?

A family had more than $12,000 in medical bills they couldn't explain after their baby was delivered early. It turns out the doctors who cared for her worked at a different, out-of-network hospital.

WEKU · Jan 30, 2023

Meet Colette Hurd, hospital's 1st transplant recipient of organs that weren’t a match. An immunosuppression strategy is key to her success

CHICAGO -- It was 422 days at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Chicago Tribune · Aug 19, 2022

Northwestern performs rare double lung transplant on patient with terminal lung cancer

CHICAGO — Northwestern Medicine surgeons have successfully performed a double lung transplant on a man with terminal lung cancer, they announced Thursday — an extremely rare surgery that could open the door to helping more patients with certain types of cancer.

Chicago Tribune · Mar 24, 2022