The program started in October under Rhode Island General Treasurer James Diossa’s office ... all of these hospitals and medical agencies, and will buy out bad debt,” Diossa said.

Along with the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office, the Minnesota Medical Debt Reset Act was ... $90 million of patients’ unpaid bills as bad debt, according to the health system’s tax ...

One-third of American credit card users are in debt because of medical bills ... and she had to appeal to the state unemployment office to get her benefits. For the three months while she waited ...

Building credit and racking up credit card rewards can be great for your finances, but putting certain items on your credit ...

Los Angeles City Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez introduced a motion Tuesday seeking to bring the city in line with the county’s new medical debt transparency ordinance. Last year, the Los Angeles ...

Though a jump in revenue and manageable expense growth have helped hospital margins stabilize, a rise in bad debt and volume of charity care have kept bottom lines in check, according to Kaufman ...

U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Representative Ralph Norman (R-SC) introduced bills today aiming to overturn a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that removes medical debt from ...

Feelings of shame or stress about debt can linger longer than one-time financial setbacks, causing more serious mental health effects in the long run. Not all debt is bad, and not all debt affects ...

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken major steps to help people with medical debt in its nearly 14 ... their state attorney general’s office. In a lot of states, consumer ...

Nearly half of all Missourians currently owe medical debt – that's according to the Missouri Foundation for Health. Oftentimes, these debts are bought by collection agencies and resold for profit. Mid ...

The company’s operating margin missed its guidance, dipping to 0.7 percent last quarter due to the bad debts, from 7.1 percent in the third quarter and 2.1 percent in the fourth quarter last year.