Civic group, nonprofit buy down medical debt for 128,000 Nevadans

The Latino engagement group Somos Votantes Education Fund partnered with the national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt to write ...

Is there any way to get rid of medical debt?

Unpaid medical bills can linger, but you have options that can help ease, reduce or even eliminate what you owe.
Opinion

New York man lost brother-in-law to a heart attack, faced $195K hospital bill. Here’s how he used AI to slash it down to $37K

Rosenberg described how his brother-in-law died suddenly of a heart attack earlier this year. After helping his sister-in-law field smaller bills for the cardiologist and other specialists, the family ...
Rocky Mount Telegram

Governor touts medical debt relief at roundtable

GREENVILLE — Gov. Josh Stein was in eastern North Carolina on Wednesday to discuss how efforts to relieve $6.5 billion in ...
WOWO

Medical Debt Relief: Ohio Proposes Interest Cap, Credit Protections

For many Ohioans, medical debt can be crippling, sometimes years after a routine hospital visit. Mattie Randolph, for example, received a bill for $4,011 from Mary Rutan Hospital nearly five years ...
CNN

Medical bills prompt more than 60 percent of U.S. bankruptcies

Bankruptcies due to medical bills increased by nearly 50 percent in a six-year period, from 46 percent in 2001 to 62 percent in 2007, and most of those who filed for bankruptcy we ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Systemic fixes needed to keep the sick out of medical debt trap

Re “Months into RV crackdown, homeless drowning in tickets” (Nov. 2) and “Administration seeks to return medical debt to credit reports” (Nov. 2): These unrelated stories share a theme — costly ...
Seattle Times

What to know as Trump administration seeks to return medical debt to credit reports

A court ruling this summer canceled a President Joe Biden-era federal effort to remove medical debt from credit reports. Now the Trump administration is seeking to thwart similar state efforts, ...
Raleigh News & Observer

In three charts, see how NC’s medical debt relief is reaching patients statewide

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. State program erased $6.5B for 2.5M patients using Medicaid-linked hospital reforms. Relief concentrated in Mecklenburg where ...
The Denver Post

Trump takes aim at laws in Colorado and other states that shield credit scores from medical debt

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Noam N. Levey, KFF Health News The Trump administration took another step Tuesday to weaken protections for Americans with medical debt, issuing new ...

4,400 Escambia residents are about to learn their $6.5M medical debt has been wiped clean

Transformation Church has worked a miracle of sorts, leading to $6.5 million in medical debt wiped clean for Escambia ...
Colorado Public Radio

Trump team takes aim at state laws shielding consumers’ credit scores from medical debt

The Trump administration took another step Tuesday to weaken protections for Americans with medical debt, issuing new guidance that threatens ongoing state efforts to keep that debt off consumers’ ...