A significant—but little-discussed—problem is that people are going into serious medical debt even with good health insurance ...

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

One of the number one causes of bankruptcy in America is medical debt,” Von said. “People, they go in — they don't even know ...

St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter plans to announce nearly $40 million of medical debt relief for thousands of city residents on Tuesday.

The Medical Debt Relief Pilot Program launched on July 1 – the start of the state’s 2025 fiscal year. Since then, it has ...

With its new law, California joins a dozen other states that have restricted the use of medical debt in credit decisions.

Compared to non-patients, those who experienced cancer had higher rates of total debt collections and medical-related collections, the researchers found. Cancer patients were also almost five ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — If you think you are alone in dealing with medical debt, guess again. Recent studies have shown that medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy in the United States.

This is the first step of the The State of Illinois' Medical Debt Relief Pilot Program’s commitment to erase $1 billion in ...

A bill recently introduced to allow for positive reporting of medical debt payments might sound good on paper. In reality, it’s not likely to benefit consumers. It could even end up harming them.

More than 52,000 Illinoisans will hear that some or all of their medical debt has been cleared by the state soon. Letters will be sent out next week telling individuals in nearly every county ...

When Marine Corps veteran Dallas Lackovic heard that more than $1,000 of his medical debt had been relieved, he didn’t believe it. “At first, I thought it was just a scam, because I’ve never ...