More than half of Americans have incurred medical debt in the past — including 27% who still have it, according to a new ...

What do you do when you disagree with or can’t afford a medical bill? Many Americans struggle to pay medical bills, avoid care because of cost worries or forgo other needs due to health care cost ...

Administrator Bill Nelson presented a revised scenario ... Nelson said he “pulled the plug” months ago on the original sample return plan given the soaring costs and the delay in getting ...

A bill authored by Senator Carla Nelson (R-Rochester) to help make medical supplies more affordable for Minnesotans was heard ...

Everything is negotiable, as the saying goes—and that includes medical bills. Although many people assume their health care bills are binding, there’s often more wiggle room than one would think.

A Senate subcommittee advanced a bill Monday that would require health care providers to disclose discounted cash prices of ...

But sometimes, a simple checkup can turn into a financial nightmare, with unexpected tests and sky-high bills that leave you drowning in debt. Medical debt is a crisis in the U.S., with Americans ...

including following through on an earlier promise to delete part of the bill that would prevent medical regulators in Ohio from disciplining doctors who express unorthodox medical opinions.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Lenders will no longer be able to consider unpaid medical bills as a credit history factor when they evaluate potential borrowers in the U.S. for mortgages, car loans or business ...

Kiren Gopal, with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said the rule will remove an estimated $49 billion in medical bills. "Medical debt is different from other kinds of debt because people ...

The clinic wants Sanford to pay damages that go beyond the value of the unpaid medical bills, including its costs and fees in the litigation. In its motion to dismiss, Sanford Health Plan argues ...