Relieving patients of medical debt is en vogue around the country, but preventing it from accumulating in the first place is ...

Californians’ credit reports will be safe from most medical debt in the coming year under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin ...

Learn how California’s SB 1061 impacts employers' use of credit checks for hiring, with medical debt no longer appearing on ...

Yes—but only if it’s more than $500 and over a year old Your medical debt might impact your credit score, but not always. If ...

The Biden-Harris administration's approach to medical debt reduction is well-intentioned but counterproductive. There are ...

About 4 in 10 Californians are believed to be carrying medical debt, which can harm their chances of landing a mortgage or an ...

The rule change, announced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on June 11, would prevent almost any medical debt from appearing on credit reports. In a statement, the CFPB said ...

It will block health care providers, as well as any contracted collection agency, from sharing a patient’s medical debt with ...

In North Carolina, medical debt judgments can last for 20 years and automatically place liens against patients’ homes, ...

Advocate Health, the nation’s third-largest non-profit health system and the parent company to Atrium Health, will also ...

North Carolina officials had been quietly laboring for months on an ambitious plan to tackle the state's mammoth medical debt ...

Two of every five Missouri adults owe money to medical providers, according to a survey published Tuesday by the nonprofit ...