Healthcare providers are now faced with changes in how medical debt is reported and collected. These laws require a transition away from credit-based pressure tactics toward educational and voluntary ...

Getting served with a lawsuit over unpaid medical bills can be both frustrating and scary, especially when you're already dealing with the aftermath of an illness or injury. It's a real issue millions ...

Medical debt collection is a highly sensitive and complex process made more challenging given today’s inflation and rising delinquency rates among patients’ broader consumer debt load. Many patients ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau outlined its proposed rules to remove medical bills from credit reports. The CFPB found that 58% of all third-party debt collection on consumer credit reports ...

Effective October 20, 2024, New York hospitals must have in place State-mandated changes to their financial assistance (“FA”) programs (including FA eligibility criteria and debt collection practices) ...

In March of this year, the three major nationwide credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) announced there would be substantial changes to medical collection debt reporting coming ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Mattie Randolph is among a growing number of Americans facing medical debt — and for her, that struggle began with a routine hospital visit in 2018. Randolph says she wasn’t billed ...

David Deeds is in financial trouble, and he's hoping a federal court in Texas can help get him out of it. Deeds, who is 62 and owes tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt from cancer treatment, ...

David Carter helped two women to safety in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, but his hand was injured in an alleged hit and run last year and he needed two surgeries as the hospital bills mounted. His ...