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

Medical debt is a major financial burden for millions of Americans, with amounts varying widely from state to state. Factors ...

People living in the 50 most populous U.S. cities carry an average non-mortgage debt of close to $38,000, according to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Illinois has eliminated $72 million in medical debt for over 52,000 residents through the Medical Debt Relief Pilot Program, ...

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