Monday, August 10, 2026

Kiara’ Darvonne Bowling’s Story: The Patient Journey Doesn’t End When the Hospital Saves Your Life

What one Oakland patient’s long road to recovery reveals about the hidden connection between patient care, administrative friction, and the future of medical billing.



“The needs of the patient come first.” — Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, is a physician and healthcare-quality expert, co-founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and former CMS administrator. His work centers on patient safety, healthcare quality, and patient-centered care.


What if we have been thinking about medical billing completely backwards?

On August 6, 2026, Kiara’ Darvonne Bowling was walking a dog in Oakland.

She was 31.

She was finishing her J.D. at California State University East Bay. She had recently returned from a summer program at Yale. She had also recently been selected as Miss California Regency International 2026.

She was building a future.

Then a car struck her.

In seconds, the future she had been working toward became uncertain.

Bowling suffered a brain bleed and multiple facial fractures and was taken to Highland Hospital. Her family says she faces multiple surgeries, extensive rehabilitation, transportation to appointments, and potentially a lifelong recovery. (People)

There is a detail in this story that I cannot stop thinking about.

The story does not end with the ambulance.

It does not end with surgery.

It does not end when the bleeding is controlled.

It does not even end when the patient leaves the hospital.

The real story begins afterward.

Physical therapy.

Specialists.

Follow-up care.

Prescriptions.

Transportation.

Insurance.

Authorizations.

Claims.

Bills.

Appeals.

Family members taking time away from work.

A patient trying to understand what happens next.

That is the part of healthcare we often hide behind the word administrative.

And I think that word has become a problem.

Because some of the things we call administrative are actually part of the patient's healthcare journey.


Here is my contrarian take

Medical billing is not merely a finance function.

It is a patient-continuity function.

That statement may make some healthcare executives uncomfortable.

Good.

It should.

Because we have spent decades separating the clinical side of medicine from the business side of medicine.

Clinical people care for patients.

Administrative people handle the paperwork.

Finance collects the money.

IT manages the systems.

Compliance watches the rules.

The payer processes the claim.

Everyone has a box.

But the patient has only one story.

And when those boxes do not communicate, the patient experiences the consequences.


The patient sees a story. We see transactions.

This is one of the biggest problems in modern healthcare.

A physician sees a patient.

The EHR records an encounter.

A coder assigns codes.

A claim is created.

A clearinghouse transmits it.

A payer adjudicates it.

A remittance arrives.

An employee posts the payment.

A denial enters a work queue.

A bill goes to the patient.

The system calls this a successful transaction.

The patient experiences something very different.

“I was injured.”

“I needed care.”

“I am trying to recover.”

“Why is my treatment delayed?”

“Why did I receive this bill?”

“Why does my doctor say one thing and my insurance company say another?”

“What happens next?”

That last question may be the most important one.


What if the biggest healthcare technology opportunity isn't another clinical tool?

Healthcare innovation loves the visible problem.

Cancer.

Imaging.

Surgery.

Diagnostics.

Drug discovery.

Remote monitoring.

AI scribes.

Clinical decision support.

All important.

But there is another enormous layer underneath healthcare:

the administrative infrastructure that determines whether the clinical work gets translated into sustainable care.

This layer is not glamorous.

It doesn't make headlines.

Nobody posts a dramatic product launch about correcting an eligibility error.

But multiply one small error by 10,000 encounters.

Now you have a business problem.

Multiply it across thousands of practices.

Now you have a healthcare problem.


The uncomfortable question for physicians

Here is the question I would ask every physician-owner:

If your practice could not collect what it earned for 90 days, how long could you continue caring for patients?

Thirty days?

Sixty?

Ninety?

Longer?

The answer tells you something about your practice.

A medical practice is not financially healthy simply because the physicians are busy.

It is not healthy because the waiting room is full.

It is not healthy because collections increased this month.

It is healthy when clinical work reliably becomes sustainable operating cash.

That is not greed.

That is infrastructure.

A clinic that cannot pay its nurses cannot provide nursing care.

A clinic that cannot retain staff cannot maintain continuity.

A clinic that cannot invest in equipment eventually compromises capacity.

A clinic drowning in administrative work has less attention available for patients.

So let's stop pretending that financial operations are somehow outside healthcare.

They are part of the machinery that keeps healthcare available.


The story behind the claim

Think about a patient who needs months of rehabilitation.

The patient's clinical journey might look like this:

Emergency care.

Specialist evaluation.

Imaging.

Surgery.

Follow-up.

Physical therapy.

Primary care.

Medication management.

Rehabilitation.

Then another specialist.

Then another appointment.

The administrative journey is just as complicated.

Eligibility.

Authorization.

Claim submission.

Claim status.

Payment.

Denial.

Appeal.

Secondary insurance.

Patient responsibility.

It is one patient.

But the system may treat the journey as dozens of unrelated transactions.

That is the disconnect.

Healthcare is longitudinal.

Billing systems are often transactional.

The opportunity is to connect them.


Recent News: Kiara’ Darvonne Bowling's story makes the invisible visible

Bowling's story has received attention because the circumstances were extraordinary and because the injuries were severe.

But the deeper reason it matters to healthcare professionals is more ordinary.

Her recovery requires more than emergency medicine.

It requires a network.

It requires time.

It requires rehabilitation.

It requires transportation.

It requires financial resources.

It requires family support.

And it requires coordination.

Her family's fundraising effort specifically identifies ongoing medical care, transportation, physical therapy, and possible future surgeries among the needs associated with her recovery. (People)

That is the real patient journey.

And it raises a question:

Why does our healthcare infrastructure remain so good at documenting encounters and so bad at preserving the entire story?


The first myth: “Billing is not patient care.”

I disagree.

Not because billing is clinical medicine.

It isn't.

But because the administrative system affects access, continuity, staffing, and financial stability.

Imagine a prior authorization delays treatment.

Is that “just administration”?

Imagine an incorrect eligibility record forces a patient to postpone an appointment.

Is that “just administration”?

Imagine a denial requires repeated calls and the treatment is delayed.

Is that “just administration”?

Imagine a physician leaves independent practice because administrative work has become economically unsustainable.

Is that “just administration”?

The label matters because labels influence priorities.

If we call something administrative, we may decide it can wait.

Sometimes it cannot.


The second myth: “A clean claim means we are doing well.”

No.

A clean claim is a useful metric.

It is not a complete diagnosis of your revenue cycle.

A practice can have a strong clean-claim rate and still suffer from:

Slow payment.

Underpayments.

Aging A/R.

Poor denial recovery.

Unworked claims.

Silent write-offs.

Secondary claims that are never filed.

Payer-specific friction.

High staff workload.

The question is not simply:

“Did the claim go out clean?”

The bigger question is:

“How reliably did clinical work become cash?”


The third myth: “We need more billing staff.”

Sometimes you do.

But first ask why.

If employees are repeatedly correcting the same problem, adding more employees may simply increase the cost of inefficiency.

Suppose a practice repeatedly submits claims with an eligibility problem.

One employee fixes it.

Another reviews it.

A biller resubmits it.

Someone checks the status.

Another person posts the eventual payment.

Five touches.

One preventable problem.

The industry calls this productivity.

I call it expensive repetition.

The better question is:

Why did the error reach the claim in the first place?


The fourth myth: “AI will solve RCM.”

No.

AI will solve some RCM problems.

It may also create new ones.

AI can identify patterns.

It can flag risk.

It can prioritize work.

It can automate repetitive tasks.

It can recognize anomalies.

It can help predict which claims deserve attention.

But AI cannot rescue bad processes simply because the software is intelligent.

Bad data + sophisticated AI = sophisticated bad data.

That is why I believe the real opportunity is upstream.


My thesis: billing is a data-quality problem

This is the idea behind much of my work with OnnX.

Billing is often a data-quality problem before it becomes a billing problem.

Think about the sequence.

The patient provides information.

The front desk enters it.

The clinician documents care.

The practice captures diagnoses and services.

The system creates the claim.

The claim is transmitted.

The payer evaluates it.

By the time the denial appears, the original mistake may be several steps upstream.

Yet the practice often attacks the denial at the end.

That is expensive.

The closer you move prevention to the source, the cheaper the correction usually becomes.

Prevent upstream.

Monitor continuously.

Escalate intelligently.

Recover selectively.

That is a better RCM philosophy.


The statistic physicians should pay attention to

The American Medical Association's 2025 physician survey found that 95% of physicians said prior authorization delays access to necessary care.

92% said prior authorization negatively affects clinical outcomes.

79% reported that patients abandon treatment because of authorization challenges.

And 26% said prior authorization had contributed to a serious adverse event, including hospitalization, permanent impairment, or death. (AMA)

Physicians and their staff reported spending an average of 13 hours each week dealing with prior authorization.

That is not a small administrative annoyance.

That is a workforce.


Another number worth knowing

The 2025 CAQH Index estimated that healthcare avoided approximately $258 billion in administrative costs through electronic transactions and improved data exchange.

But the same analysis identified another $21 billion in potential savings from further automation of manual and partially manual administrative transactions. (CAQH/GlobeNewswire)

That is the paradox.

Healthcare has automated enormous amounts.

And there is still enormous friction left.

So the question isn't:

“Does automation work?”

It clearly does.

The question is:

“Where should we automate next?”


Three expert perspectives

Don Berwick: the system exists for the patient

Berwick's work on healthcare quality repeatedly returns to a simple principle:

Patients are not components of the system. The system exists for them.

That sounds obvious.

But operational design often tells a different story.

When a staff member spends an hour correcting a preventable billing error, who benefits?

When a physician spends an evening dealing with an insurance issue, who benefits?

When a patient waits weeks because administrative work failed, who benefits?

The patient should be the test.


Atul Gawande: technical success isn't the whole outcome

Gawande's writing frequently examines the gap between medical capability and what people actually experience.

A technically successful procedure is not necessarily a successful healthcare journey.

The patient still has to live afterward.

That is why continuity matters.

The procedure is an event.

Recovery is a process.

Healthcare systems are designed heavily around events.

Patients live through processes.


Danielle Ofri: don't automate away the human being

Ofri has written extensively about listening and the gap between what patients say and what doctors hear.

That matters in the age of AI.

We should automate administrative friction.

We should not automate empathy.

We should not automate judgment where judgment is required.

We should not replace human conversation simply because a machine can generate text.

Automate the repetitive. Protect the relational.

That should be one of the foundational principles of healthcare AI.


The five-stage revenue cycle physicians should understand

Forget the complicated terminology for a moment.

Think about RCM as five stages.

1. Capture

Did we capture the right information?

2. Validate

Can we identify the problem before submission?

3. Submit

Did the claim leave correctly and on time?

4. Monitor

Do we know what happened afterward?

5. Recover

If something went wrong, are we acting intelligently?

Most traditional RCM systems become very active in stage five.

I would rather spend more energy in stages one and two.

Because:

Recovery is expensive.

Prevention is cheaper.


The 30-day physician-owner challenge

You do not need a million-dollar consulting engagement to start.

Try this.

Days 1–7: Find the leaks

Pull 90 days of data.

Look at:

Denial reasons.

A/R aging.

Payment delays.

Underpayments.

Write-offs.

Top payers.

High-value unpaid claims.

Don't fix anything yet.

Find the pattern.


Days 8–14: Rank the problems

Choose your top three.

Not ten.

Three.

Ask:

Which problem costs the most?

Which occurs most often?

Which is easiest to prevent?

Where do those three overlap?

That intersection is where you start.


Days 15–21: Remove human touches

For each recurring problem, ask:

Can eligibility be checked automatically?

Can the system flag missing information?

Can payer rules be applied before submission?

Can the claim be prioritized automatically?

Can payment variance be detected?

Can aging claims be escalated?

Can staff review exceptions instead of everything?

That is where technology should earn its place.


Days 22–30: Measure

Compare your baseline.

Did:

Denials fall?

A/R improve?

Payment time decrease?

Staff touches decrease?

Underpayments get recovered?

Cash improve?

If you cannot answer those questions, the project isn't finished.


The seven metrics I would watch

Forget the dashboard with 47 boxes.

Start with seven.

1. Days in A/R

2. 90+ day A/R

3. Preventable denial rate

4. Net collection rate

5. Average time to payment

6. Underpayment variance

7. Human touches per claim

That last one deserves special attention.

Because it measures friction.

And friction is expensive.


The metric most dashboards miss

Human touches per claim.

Imagine two practices.

Practice A gets a claim paid after one automated transaction.

Practice B gets the same claim paid after:

A phone call.

A correction.

A resubmission.

A status check.

A second follow-up.

A payment posting correction.

Both practices collected the money.

But they did not operate the same way.

One has a scalable system.

The other has a labor-intensive system.

Revenue alone will not show you the difference.

Touch count will.


Underpayments: the quiet leak

Everyone talks about denials.

Underpayments can be quieter.

A claim is paid.

The staff member posts it.

Everyone moves on.

But was the payment correct?

If expected reimbursement was $1,000 and the payer paid $850, the claim technically got paid.

But $150 remains unexplained.

Multiply that across thousands of claims.

Now you have a revenue opportunity.

That is why payment integrity should sit beside denial management.


The problem with “industry best practices”

Here's another contrarian point.

There is no universal best practice.

There are better practices for specific environments.

A dermatology practice is not a cardiology practice.

A solo physician is not a 300-provider group.

A Medicare-heavy practice is not the same as a commercially insured practice.

A rural clinic is not the same as an urban specialty group.

So don't ask:

“What is the best RCM workflow?”

Ask:

“What workflow produces the best outcome for our patients, our staff, our specialty, and our payer mix?”

Benchmarking is useful.

Copying is not.


What physicians should stop accepting

Stop accepting:

“That's just how insurance works.”

Stop accepting:

“Our billing company handles everything.”

Stop accepting:

“Our clean-claim rate is good.”

Stop accepting:

“We need more staff.”

Stop accepting:

“The payer denied it.”

Stop accepting:

“That's too small to worry about.”

Every one of those statements may be true.

But none of them explains the root cause.

The better question is always:

Why?


What physicians should start asking

Why did this claim fail?

Where did the error begin?

Could we have predicted it?

Could we have prevented it?

How many staff touches did it require?

How much did it cost to recover?

What happens if we multiply this by 10,000 claims?

Those questions change the conversation.


Legal implications: automation does not remove responsibility

AI and automation make RCM more powerful.

They also create governance obligations.

Practices need to consider:

HIPAA.

Data security.

Business associate agreements.

Coding compliance.

Documentation integrity.

Medical necessity.

Payer contracts.

Overpayments.

False Claims Act exposure.

Improper billing.

Timely filing.

Credentialing.

Patient financial communications.

The principle is simple:

The software can automate the workflow. It cannot automate accountability.

If an automated system makes a mistake, the practice still needs to understand:

What happened.

Why it happened.

What data was used.

What action was taken.

Who reviewed it.

How the problem was corrected.


Ethical considerations

There is a line between optimizing revenue and optimizing care.

It matters.

A system designed to improve reimbursement should never become a system that encourages inappropriate clinical decisions.

The physician's clinical judgment must remain independent.

The goal should be:

Accurate care.

Accurate documentation.

Accurate coding.

Accurate reimbursement.

Not:

“Find every possible way to increase the bill.”

That distinction is foundational.


Another ethical question: where do the savings go?

Suppose automation saves a practice $150,000.

What happens next?

Do you reduce staff?

Increase physician capacity?

Improve benefits?

Expand patient access?

Invest in cybersecurity?

Lower patient costs?

Fund better clinical equipment?

There isn't one correct answer.

But there should be a conversation.

Efficiency should create capacity, not simply demand more productivity from exhausted people.


Why I built OnnX

This is where my work as a physician and entrepreneur intersects.

I did not build OnnX because I believe physicians need another billing dashboard.

They don't.

They need fewer administrative headaches.

They need visibility.

They need earlier warnings.

They need cleaner workflows.

They need to know where revenue is at risk.

And they need technology that works with their practice instead of creating another layer of work.

The philosophy behind OnnX is straightforward:

Identify the problem early.

Automate what is predictable.

Surface what requires attention.

Keep humans in the loop where judgment matters.

Give the practice control of its own revenue-cycle intelligence.

That last point matters.

The physician should not have to ask a vendor:

“What is happening with my claims?”

The system should tell the practice.


Why eliminating middlemen is not really about eliminating people

I use the phrase “eliminate middlemen” carefully.

Not every third-party billing company is bad.

Many are excellent.

The problem is opacity.

If the practice cannot see what is happening, cannot understand why claims are failing, cannot measure performance, and cannot easily access its operational data, it becomes dependent.

The goal should be operational independence.

That means the practice understands:

What happened.

Why.

What is at risk.

What needs attention.

What was recovered.

What remains unresolved.

Technology should make the practice more informed.

Not more dependent.


The future: predictive RCM

Traditional billing asks:

What went wrong?

The next generation should ask:

What is likely to go wrong?

Imagine knowing before submission that a claim has a high probability of rejection.

Imagine knowing which payer behavior is changing.

Imagine identifying a documentation gap before it becomes a denial.

Imagine detecting an unusual reimbursement pattern before hundreds of claims are affected.

Imagine knowing which 20 claims deserve human attention this morning.

That is where predictive RCM becomes interesting.

Not because prediction is perfect.

Because attention is limited.


But AI should know when it doesn't know

This is critical.

A good system should not pretend certainty.

A claim with high confidence can be automated.

A complex claim should be escalated.

A high-dollar claim may require human review.

An ambiguous case may need clinical context.

The architecture should be:

AI detects.

AI prioritizes.

AI explains.

Human decides when judgment matters.

That is safer.

And it is more useful.


The hidden lesson in Kiara’ Darvonne Bowling's story

Her story is not an RCM case study.

It should never be presented that way.

She is a person experiencing something painful and profoundly uncertain.

But her story reminds us of something important.

A medical event is rarely a single event.

It is a chain.

And the chain continues long after the emergency room.

For Bowling, the next chapters involve recovery.

For other patients, it may be cancer treatment.

A transplant.

A chronic illness.

A new diagnosis.

A disability.

A rehabilitation program.

End-of-life care.

Whatever the condition, patients do not experience the system one department at a time.

They experience it as life.

That is the standard healthcare technology should eventually meet.


The biggest opportunity in healthcare may be invisible

We have become fascinated with what AI can generate.

Maybe the better question is:

What unnecessary work can AI make disappear?

A summary is useful.

A prediction is useful.

A generated note may be useful.

But if a physician still spends hours dealing with preventable administrative problems, something is missing.

The greatest healthcare technology may be the technology nobody notices.

The claim that never becomes a denial.

The authorization that never becomes a delay.

The payment discrepancy that gets caught automatically.

The aging account that gets addressed before it becomes a crisis.

The staff member who goes home on time.

The physician who doesn't open the billing portal at 9:30 p.m.

Those are outcomes worth measuring.


A new definition of patient-centered care

Maybe patient-centered care should include more than the exam room.

Maybe it should include:

The waiting room.

The referral.

The authorization.

The claim.

The bill.

The follow-up.

The recovery.

The transition home.

The patient doesn't care which department owns the problem.

They just want it solved.

That is the ultimate test.


FAQ

Is RCM really part of patient care?

Not clinically, but operationally it affects access, continuity, staffing, and practice sustainability.

Should every practice adopt AI?

No.

Start with the problem.

Then determine whether automation is appropriate.

Is outsourcing RCM a mistake?

No.

It can be effective.

But maintain visibility, data ownership, performance measurement, and accountability.

What should I measure first?

Start with A/R days, aging, preventable denials, payment velocity, and human touches.

Is a 95% clean-claim rate good?

It may be.

But it tells only part of the story.

Look at what happens after submission.

Should every denial be appealed?

No.

Prioritize based on probability of recovery, dollar value, effort, payer behavior, and filing limits.

Can AI replace billers?

The better question is which billing tasks should no longer require manual work.

Human judgment remains important for exceptions and complex cases.

What is the biggest RCM mistake?

Waiting until the denial.

The better strategy is identifying the problem before submission.

How do I know whether an RCM technology investment worked?

Establish a baseline.

Then measure changes in denials, A/R, payment speed, staff touches, underpayments, and cash.


Myth Buster

Myth: Billing is finance's problem.

Reality: RCM crosses clinical documentation, front-office operations, coding, billing, payer relations, technology, and finance.

Myth: More billers fix bad RCM.

Reality: More people can increase capacity, but they cannot automatically fix bad workflow.

Myth: AI eliminates the need for human oversight.

Reality: AI should reduce repetitive work while escalating uncertainty.

Myth: Clean claims equal healthy cash flow.

Reality: Payment velocity, aging, underpayments, and recoverability matter too.

Myth: Every denial is the payer's fault.

Reality: Many problems begin upstream.

Myth: Small-dollar discrepancies do not matter.

Reality: Small losses multiplied across thousands of encounters can become substantial.


Tools, metrics, and resources

A practical RCM technology stack should include capabilities for:

Eligibility verification

Authorization tracking

Claim validation

Claim-status monitoring

Denial analytics

Payment reconciliation

Underpayment detection

A/R aging

Payer performance

Workflow automation

Exception management

The tool is secondary.

The metric is primary.

If you cannot identify the metric you want to improve, you probably are not ready to buy the tool.


Three resources worth reading

American Medical Association — Prior Authorization Survey
The AMA's latest physician survey provides current evidence on authorization burden, delays, treatment abandonment, administrative workload, and patient consequences.
Read the AMA findings

2025 CAQH Index
The CAQH Index examines administrative transactions, automation, interoperability, and remaining opportunities for efficiency.
Read the CAQH Index findings

DataSpring Administrative Transaction Framework
DataSpring provides information about administrative healthcare transactions including eligibility, authorization, claims, payment, and remittance processes.
Explore the framework


Three things I would do tomorrow morning

First: Pull your 90-day A/R and denial data.

Second: Identify the three largest preventable sources of friction.

Third: Ask your team one question:

“Why are humans still doing this manually?”

That question may uncover more value than another software demonstration.


Future Outlook

The next phase of medical billing will not be about creating more sophisticated ways to chase money after something goes wrong.

It will be about preventing the problem.

The evolution looks something like this:

Reactive RCM

What went wrong?

Automated RCM

Can software do the work?

Predictive RCM

What is likely to go wrong?

Preventive RCM

How do we stop the problem before it happens?

That is where healthcare should be heading.

And eventually, the best RCM system may become almost invisible.

The physician documents.

The patient receives care.

The system validates.

The claim moves.

Exceptions surface.

Humans intervene where needed.

The payment arrives.

No drama.

No heroic billing recovery.

No midnight spreadsheet.

Just a healthcare system quietly working the way it should.


Final Thoughts: We are solving the wrong problem downstream

Kiara’ Darvonne Bowling's story began with a terrible moment.

But her story is not only about what happened on that Oakland street.

It is about everything that comes afterward.

That is true for millions of patients.

And it is true for medical practices.

We cannot control every event that changes a patient's life.

But we can control how much friction we create after that event.

We can build better workflows.

We can capture better information.

We can identify problems earlier.

We can automate repetitive work.

We can protect human judgment.

We can make practices financially stronger.

And we can remember why all of this matters.

There is a human being behind every claim.

There is a clinician behind every clinical decision.

And there is a practice behind every promise to keep caring for patients tomorrow.

The goal of healthcare technology should not be to make medicine more automated.

The goal should be to make medicine more human by removing the work that never needed a human in the first place.


Get Involved — Start the Conversation

Here is the question I want to leave with physicians and clinic owners:

What is one administrative task your practice still performs manually that you believe should have disappeared years ago?

Tell me in the comments.

What is the biggest source of RCM friction in your practice?

If you have solved it, share what worked.

If you have not solved it, share the problem.

Someone else may have already found an answer.

And if this article made you rethink the relationship between patient care, administrative work, and revenue cycle management, please repost it so more physicians and clinic owners can join the conversation.

Raise your hand. Start the conversation.

Share what you are learning.

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About the Author

Dr. Daniel Cham is a physician, healthcare management consultant, and entrepreneur focused on the intersection of medical technology, healthcare operations, and medical billing.

As founder of OnnX, he focuses on practical technology solutions designed to help small and medium-sized medical practices reduce administrative friction, improve revenue-cycle visibility, identify preventable problems, and spend less time navigating unnecessary billing complexity.

His perspective comes from working across clinical medicine, healthcare operations, entrepreneurship, and medical technology.

His goal is straightforward:

Take complicated healthcare problems and turn them into practical ideas physicians can actually use.

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Disclaimer

This article is intended for general educational and informational purposes only. It should not be interpreted as medical, legal, regulatory, coding, billing, compliance, financial, or other professional advice.

Healthcare laws, payer policies, contractual requirements, and individual practice circumstances vary. Readers should consult appropriately qualified professionals for guidance concerning their specific circumstances.

Information concerning Kiara’ Darvonne Bowling's accident and recovery is based on publicly available reporting and may change as additional information becomes available.


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