Federal and state policymakers have several options to expand coverage and take action to help reduce medical debt and its ...
Ending surprise medical bills used to be a Trump priority, but he just slashed the federal office working on that.
Nearly 18% of South Dakota adults have medical debt, according to the health nonprofit organization KFF, which analyzed ...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule in early January to take medical debt off consumer credit reports.
The consumer watchdog agency explained that “Medical debt may be less predictive of whether a consumer will pay a future loan, because medical debts can occur and are collected through unique ...
The state of Illinois has erased hundreds of millions of dollars in medical debt as part of a pilot program championed by Gov ...
In a healthy and functioning society, no one should fall into financial ruin simply because they got sick,” Gov. J.B.
ACtion was taken on behalf of 1,508 low-income people who had taken on medical debt worth 5% or more of their annual income.
Rep. Forrest Bennett introduced a bill that would prevent some medical debt from affecting people's credit scores.
After placing 11,500 liens on patient homes for unpaid bills, a North Carolina hospital canceled them. Here’s what ...