Hoosiers have an estimated $2.2 billion of medical debt in collections with even more on payment plans and credit cards. A ...

Minnesota DFL lawmakers are proposing a one-time expenditure of $5 million to retire as much as $500 million in unpaid ...

Most of the medical debt didn't belong to the poorest patients, but rather insured people in the middle and lower-middle ...

About 1 in 6 Hoosier families have medical debt in collections. A bill that hopes to help them has bipartisan support in the ...

The Trump administration’s bid to reduce the authority of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has advanced, with ...

Reports of unpaid debt can tank an otherwise strong credit score. The new CFPB rule would change that for about 15 million ...

Debt collectors would be prohibited from reporting medical debts to credit scoring agencies under legislation endorsed by a ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, now led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, agreed to temporarily halt enforcement ...

The fate of a Biden-era rule that would keep medical debt from consumers’ credit reports is up in the air amid reported ...

In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2024 applicable to debt collection practices. Like 2023, the theme of 2024 was ...

Patients say they were harmed by Advocate Health’s billing and collection practices – even as the health system has canceled ...