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After placing 11,500 liens on patient homes for unpaid bills, a North Carolina hospital canceled them. Here’s what happened—and how to manage medical debt.
After placing 11,500 liens on patient homes for unpaid bills, a North Carolina hospital canceled them. Here’s what happened—and how to manage medical debt.
Apart from stating that no Illinois medical debt had liens placed on homes or real estate, the system would not break out the amount of debt being canceled by state. Advocate Health currently ...
North Carolina’s largest hospital chain will cancel debt and liens placed on the homes of patients who couldn’t pay bills. “I was ecstatic,” one former patient says.
Advocate — the third-largest nonprofit health system in the U.S. — plans to cancel more than 11,500 liens, some more than 20 years old, according to a Sept. 19 news release from the health system.
The Medicaid Estate Recovery program can put a lien on the property, meaning they may recover some debt using the value of any property the beneficiary owned.