Although America's approximately 3,000 nonprofit hospitals are required by law to provide free or discounted medical care to ...

A CBS News investigation showed that more than 50 non-profit hospitals in Maryland are getting $700 million annually in tax ...

“Medical debt is not the result of poor financial decisions — it is the result of a health care system where many families are just one accident or one bad diagnosis away from ... Senate Bill 1192 ...

Dermatologists, vets and dentists – the domain of many elective procedures — are primary customers of medical financing ... in healthcare pursuing bad debt, he said.

Senate Bill 5480, sponsored by Sen. Marcus Riccelli, D-Spokane, intends to mirror efforts at the federal level that have been ...

Now, an effort is underway to reverse a rule set by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that would remove medical debt from credit ... purposely getting a bad, expensive diagnosis.

Senate Republicans introduced a resolution to nullify a CFPB rule banning medical debt from credit reports ... just days before President Biden left office. The resolution is cosponsored by ...

On Tuesday, the Vermont House unanimously approved Senate Bill 27, a proposal to eliminate up to $100 million in medical debt for low- and moderate-income Vermonters and remove ...

The Washington State Legislature passed a bill on Wednesday that could offer significant relief to people drowning in medical debt, but critics warn it may drive ...

(The Center Square) – The Washington State Legislature passed a bill on Wednesday that could offer significant relief to people drowning in medical ... debt, and sometimes it’s because they ...