Individuals with unpaid medical debt are also more likely to put off seeking care, which can worsen their health, lead to more expensive care in the future, or put them out of work. The Vermont ...

A 2021 survey of Vermont households found that fear of medical debt impacted 85,000 Vermonters’ health care decisions.

have debts in “terminal bad debt status” and (2) are in a household at or below 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Level (currently, $60,240 for a single person and $124,800 for a family of four) or ...

The initiative, introduced by Treasurer Mike Pieciak, is funded with $1 million already available in the state treasury and ...

Americans borrowed an estimated $74 billion for medical bills last year, according to a West Health-Gallup survey. And now an ...

Now, an effort is underway to reverse a rule set by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that would remove medical debt from credit ... purposely getting a bad, expensive diagnosis.