Why a financial regulator is going after health care debt
Health
8 months ago
When President Barack Obama signed legislation in 2010 to create the Consumer Financial Protection B...
medical debt
NYC joins a growing wave of local governments erasing residents' medical debt
National
9 months ago
This week, New York City pledged to pay down $2 billion worth of residents' medical debt. In doing s...
In this Oklahoma town, almost everyone knows someone who's been sued by the hospital
National
9 months ago
McALESTER, Okla. — It took little more than an hour for Deborah Hackler to dispense with the tall st...
Before dying, she made a fund to cancel others' medical debt — nearly $70m worth
National
11 months ago
Casey McIntyre wanted her legacy to be clearing medical debt for others. But her husband Andrew Greg...
As some medical debt disappears from Americans' credit reports, scores are rising
Health
1 year ago
The share of American consumers with medical debt on their credit reports has declined dramatically ...
Medical debt could be barred from ruining your credit score soon
Health
1 year ago
The Biden administration announced a major initiative to protect Americans from medical debt on Thur...
Medical debt nearly pushed this family into homelessness. Millions more are at risk
National
1 year ago
DENVER — Kayce Atencio used to be haunted by a thought while working at a homeless shelter in downto...
Hospitals sued thousands of patients in North Carolina for unpaid bills, report finds
National
1 year ago
North Carolina hospitals — led by the state's largest public medical system — have sued thousands of...
A mom owed nearly $102,000 for her son's stay in a state mental health hospital
Health
1 year ago
Bridget Narsh's son, Mason, needed urgent help in January 2020, so she was offered the chance to sen...
The hospital bills didn't find her, but a lawsuit did — plus interest
Health
1 year ago
Bethany Birch had pain in her diaphragm on and off for eight months in 2016. She knew it was trigger...
'We're not doing that': A Black couple won't crowdfund to pay medical debt
National
1 year ago
When Kristie Fields was undergoing treatment for breast cancer nine years ago, she got some unsolici...
Many people living in the 'Diabetes Belt' are plagued with medical debt
National
1 year ago
Delores Lowery remembers vividly the day in 2016 when she was working in a weaving plant near her ho...
Medical debt affects millions, and advocates push IRS, consumer agency for relief
Health
1 year ago
Dozens of advocates for patients and consumers, citing widespread harm caused by medical debt, are p...
'Medical cost-sharing' plan left this pastor on the hook for much of a $160,000 bill
Health
1 year ago
Kareen King calls it "the ultimate paradox": The hospital that saved her husband Jeff's heart also b...
Lessons from Germany to help solve the U.S. medical debt crisis
Health
1 year ago
PÜTTLINGEN, Germany — Almost every day, Dr. Eckart Rolshoven sees the long shadow of coal mining in ...
How banks and hospitals are cashing in when patients can't pay for health care
Health
1 year ago
Patients at North Carolina-based Atrium Health get what looks like an enticing pitch when they go to...
Why Black Americans are more likely to be saddled with medical debt
Health
2 years ago
When Dr. H.M. Green opened his new medical office building on East Vine Avenue in 1922, Black Knoxvi...
Paying for mental health care leaves families in debt and isolated
Health
2 years ago
Rachel and her husband adopted Marcus out of Guatemalan foster care as a 7-month-old infant and brou...
Medical debt ruined her credit. 'It's like you're being punished for being sick'
Health
2 years ago
After a year of chemotherapy and radiation, doctors told Penelope Wingard in 2014 that her breast ca...
Some hospitals rake in high profits while their patients are loaded with medical debt
Health
2 years ago
Almost everything about the opening of the 2019 Prosper High School Eagles' football season was big....