The report, based on data from 2,300 hospitals, shows overall bad debt and charity as a percent of gross revenue increased 7% year over year for 2024. The amount of bad debt and charity per calendar ...

If healthcare entities believe that people won't pay their medical bills at the margin, they'll likely raise prices.

Here's what we found: Medical debt can be a fairly ubiquitous problem for Americans receiving health care, whether they planned ahead for treatment or had an unexpected medical expense.

Enhancements made to this Initiative in 1999 further strengthened the links between debt relief, poverty reduction, and social policies. The underlying objective ... public services—such as preventive ...

What a month for healthcare news. This week the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized a rule that will prevent medical debt from impacting consumer credit scores. The policy ...

Now, when a hospital or any other business sues someone for unpaid debt in ... prevents health care organizations from sharing information about patients, I can confirm our policies were followed ...

Lown recommended patients check the financial assistance policies at all nearby ... data suggesting 60% to 80% of “bad debt” write-offs across the health care industry are for patients who ...

The $90 million write-off includes multiple years of debt and goes ... as the cost of care keeps rising along with large out-of-pocket spending requirements with many health plans.

The regulations fulfill a pledge by the Biden administration to address the scourge of health care debt, a problem that ... the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism.

As the nation braces for potential policy shifts ... the biggest new health care laws Californians should know about: California becomes the eighth state in which medical debt will no longer ...