If healthcare entities believe that people won't pay their medical bills at the margin, they'll likely raise prices.

Over 100 million Americans are saddled with medical debt, but a few initiatives are addressing — or even eliminating — it.

A new study shared with the KSL Investigators by LendingTree finds more than half of people with medical debt skipped or ...

On Jan. 7, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized a rule that will ban the inclusion of medical debt on credit reports and prohibit lenders from using medical ...

The Biden Administration announced an initiative Tuesday to remove an estimated $49 billion in medical debt from the credit reports of roughly 15 million Americans. A new rule from the Consumer ...

Medical debt — a burden for nearly 15 million people in the country — will no longer haunt consumers' credit reports, according to a new federal rule that was finalized on Tuesday. The ...

Medical debt will no longer appear on credit reports due to a new rule finalized by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is removing $49 billion in ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — A new rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will ban medical debt from credit reports.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Medical debt is a growing concern for Americans, and a new federal rule will remove it from credit reports. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has approved a federal ...

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share For years, Octavia Byars’ dreams of owning a home were stalled by something seemingly unrelated to housing: unpaid medical bills. The single mother from Calumet ...

“Undue Medical Debt has the ‘targeted’ transactions ... “They are assuring me that we will have the total numbers in time to do a ‘debt-burning’ ceremony on Feb. 2, though it will ...