As medical debt in the Golden State climbs higher, one lawmaker proposes to use taxpayer money to relieve the burden of high ...
Orange County in Florida has eliminated $43 million in medical debt for 42,000 residents, bringing the total relief to $559 ...
California has already enacted protections related to medical debt, including SB 1061 that went into effect in January 2025.
Many hospital systems in Connecticut have stopped suing their patients over unpaid bills, stung by criticism about the harm ...
Physicians, dentists and other non-hospital providers account for more than 80% of health care debt collection cases in ...
People with medical debt are significantly more likely to delay dental, medical, and mental health care. The study used a ...
Researchers found Oregon has a lower rate of residents chased by debt collectors for unpaid medical bills following passage of a 2019 law A nearly seven-year-old state law requiring nonprofit ...
Many hospital systems in Connecticut have stopped suing their patients over unpaid bills, stung by criticism about the harm ...
Many hospital systems in Connecticut have stopped suing their patients over unpaid bills, stung by criticism about the harm ...
Rising medical debt, and the methods used to collect it, is a symptom of a larger illness in American health care.
In this conversation, Undue Medical Debt's Allison Sesso, president and CEO, and Eva Stahl, vice president of policy, ...
About 20.4 million people in the United States are living with medical debt – debt that one study says adds up to over $220 ...