Getting served with a lawsuit over unpaid medical bills can be both frustrating and scary, especially when you're already dealing with the aftermath of an illness or injury. It's a real issue millions ...

Healthcare providers are now faced with changes in how medical debt is reported and collected. These laws require a transition away from credit-based pressure tactics toward educational and voluntary ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau outlined its proposed rules to remove medical bills from credit reports. The CFPB found that 58% of all third-party debt collection on consumer credit reports ...

When a collection agency contacted Lauren MacNeill earlier this summer saying she owed $71 to an urgent care center near her Westport, Conn., home, she was tempted to just pay the bill to get the ...

Can I get medical debt lowered or forgiven? As if the medical emergency wasn't bad enough, now you're looking at an invoice that you don't know how you'll pay. Medical debt can come on quickly and in ...

David Carter helped two women to safety in the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, but his hand was injured in an alleged hit and run last year and he needed two surgeries as the hospital bills mounted. His ...

David Deeds is in financial trouble, and he's hoping a federal court in Texas can help get him out of it. Deeds, who is 62 and owes tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt from cancer treatment, ...

Effective October 20, 2024, New York hospitals must have in place State-mandated changes to their financial assistance (“FA”) programs (including FA eligibility criteria and debt collection practices) ...