The 281 ,881 medical bill-focused fundraising campaigns posted on the website from May 2010 to December 2018 sought about $10 .3 billion. As of April 2019, the campaigns had raised about $3.7 billion.
Forty-two medical bill-focused fundraisers were housed on the website in 2010, with that number increasing to 119,373 in 2018. The most common type of medical bill-focused campaigns were for patients with cancer (35 percent), trauma and injuries (19 percent) and neurological conditions (17 percent).
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