[14][15][16] On January 1, 2021, the United States government passed a law requiring all hospitals to have their chargemaster on its website.

[19] In December 1978, babies Arlena Twigg and Kimberly Michelle May, were born at Hardee Memorial Hospital, they were inadvertently switched, unknown to their parents at the time.

[20] In early September 1988, Ernest and Regina Twigg of Sebring, Florida, filed a lawsuit against Hardee Memorial Hospital and four of its employees in a United States District Court in Tampa for $100 million.

[21][22][23] They did this after a genetic test on Arlena, before she died in August 1988 from a congenital heart defect, revealed that she was not their daughter.

[8] In late August 1993, Kimberly Mays successfully divorced the Twiggs, when Circuit Judge Stephen Dakan refused to order her to see them.

[31][32] They did this after Patsy Webb, a former nurses' aid from Hardee Memorial Hospital, had said that a physician told her to switch Arlena and Kimberly.

[33] In March 1994, Kimberly Mays ran away from home and was found later by Sarasota police at the YMCA, she later moved in with the Twiggs.