The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to eliminate all medical debt from credit reports. Will President-elect Trump ...

Attorney General Andrea Campbell wants Massachusetts to prohibit health care providers from reporting medical debt to credit ...

CHICAGO- The State of Illinois’ Medical Debt Relief Pilot Program has relieved more than $72 million worth of medical debt ...

When St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter announced last year that he would dedicate $1.1 million in federal COVID relief aid to ...

The Medical Debt Relief Pilot Program launched on July 1 – the start of the state’s 2025 fiscal year. Since then, it has ...

Health Affairs' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jared Walker of Dollar For about his recent paper that explores the widely varying criteria amongst US nonprofit hospitals to determine who ...

More New Jersey hospitals are becoming members of large health systems and that’s raising prices and medical debt for ...

Illinois residents will soon start receiving notifications that their medical debts have been erased as part of the state’s ...

By using federal American Rescue Plan funds, the city paired with the nonprofit, Undue Medical Debt, and M Health Fairview to ...

In all, St. Paul will spend $1.1 million, funded by the American Rescue Plan, to erase $110 million of medical debt city wide ...

With its new law, California joins a dozen other states that have restricted the use of medical debt in credit decisions.

More than $72 million worth of debt has been forgiven as part of the governor's plan to ultimately cancel $1 billion in ...