RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina ... their debt to collectors or tell credit reporting agencies about unpaid bills. Interest rates on medical debt also would be capped. The plan has the ...
Changes have made it so medical debt carries less influence on credit reports. But experts say more can be done to improve ...
The reason for medical debt in the U.S. -- too-high healthcare prices -- seemed to be unanimously agreed on at Thursday's ...
Roy Cooper and state health officials unveiled a plan ... to report medical debt to credit agencies. With the program, the governor and the Department of Health and Human Services aim to address a ...
Cooper also signed into law a bill that that allows the N.C. Leadership Academy in Kernersville to be one of four charter ...
Research shows cancer patients, people with lower incomes and those without insurance are more likely to face this financial ...
The US Senate Committee on Health, Education, and Labor Pensions discussed actionable solutions to address the medical debt ...
Medical debt drops significantly once patients qualify for Medicare — if they can afford several hundred dollars a month for a private supplemental policy and a drug plan, though this year ...
A North Carolina judge has upheld the state employee health plan’s decision in 2022 to chose Aetna to administer the plan starting next January.
After a frenzied start in 2023, the pace of the 102nd Michigan Legislature has slowed considerably this year. In the first ...
And, per other studies, medical debt information on a credit report “is not a good predicter” of performance on other forms of credit. The CFPB’s proposed rule is mostly in the form of an ...