Federal Rule of Evidence 409 or a comparable State rule bars evidence that a party paid for or furnished medical, hospital, or similar expenses for an injury if such evidence is offered to show the party's liability for the injury.

United States v. Scarpa, 913 F.2d 993, 1016-1017 (2d Cir. 1990) (upholding trial court's admission of detective's testimony [about witness Leon's statement during an interview which was made five to six hours after the....To qualify as an excited utterance under the hearsay exception created by Federal Rule of Evidence 803(2) or a comparable State rule, a statement need not be contemporaneous with the startling event or condition to which the statement relates: the statement may be made after the startling event or condition.

United States v. Arnold, 467 F.3d 880, 884-885 (5th Cir. 2006) (upholding trial court's admission into evidence of accused's prior arrest and conviction for possession of crack because accused made his intent and knowledge the critical issues at trial and his "prior convictions were expressly offered,...Evidence of a criminal or wrongful act apart from the act that at issue at trial Is not barred by the prohibition against circumstantial use of character if intent, knowledge, mistake, or accident is a legally-material factual issue, the opposing party suggests the non-existence of knowledge or urges mistake or accident as a defense, and evidence of another crime, wrong, or act is offered to prove the knowledge or the absence of mistake or accident by a criminal defendant or other person.

Orr v. Bank of America, NT & SA, 285 F.3d 764, 779 (9th Cir. 2002) (holding, in plaintiff employee's against against defendant bank for intentional interference, that the depositions were inadmissible hearsay evidence because....A statement can be hearsay only if the statement is "offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted." The purpose for which a statement is offered depends on the purpose of the offeror of the statement. Hence, a statement is offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted if the offeror (normally trial counsel) seeks to use the statement to show that the matter or proposition asserted by the declarant (the maker of the statement) is in fact true.