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.

There is more medical debt in collections than any other type of debt. When you get your medical bill following an office visit, diagnostic tests or a bigger procedure, you might be surprised by ...

Advocate Health, Charlotte-based Atrium Health’s parent company announced it would drop property liens as a method of ...

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 ...

The Biden administration finalized a new rule this week preventing medical debt from being included in credit reports, as well as prohibiting lenders from using certain medical information in loan ...

A new federal rule prevents medical debt from counting against Americans ... for the CFPB to halt action until Donald Trump takes office following the latter’s victory over Harris.

enacting a major new consumer protection just days before President Biden is set to leave office. The rules ban credit agencies from including medical debts on consumers’ credit reports and ...

enacting a major new consumer protection just days before President Joe Biden is set to leave office, KFF Health News reported Jan. 7. The rules ban credit agencies from including medical debts on ...

A settlement between the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office and Hutchinson Health this past October has resulted in $184,000 in medical debt forgiveness. Attorney General Keith Ellison made ...