The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to eliminate all medical debt from credit reports. Will President-elect Trump ...

On November 1, several debt collection trade organizations sued the CFPB in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. In the ...

The task of collecting Americans’ delinquent medical bills has become big business in recent years but now, the debt collection industry says, its work is threatened. A federal proposal ...

On November 1, a debt collection trade group filed a complaint in federal court challenging an October 1 CFPB advisory opinion that warned ...

If you still haven't paid after several months, the debt could be sold to a medical collections agency, which will try to collect it. Medical debt can come from a variety of sources, including ...

Illinois has eliminated $72 million in medical debt for over 52,000 residents through the Medical Debt Relief Pilot Program, ...

Here's what you need to know about medical bills and credit. If a medical bill in collection makes its way to your credit report, it can be listed for a total of seven years. The unpaid debt will ...

In this video, Dorothea Bernique talks aboutmedical debt collection practices and non-profit hospitals. There have been new actions by the CFPB to reduce the burden of medical debt on American ...

More New Jersey hospitals are becoming members of large health systems and that’s raising prices and medical debt for ...

A federal lawsuit filed by a debt-collection agency threatens to derail a Biden administration's regulatory attempt at ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about how healthcare business and policy impact consumers. With an estimated $88 billion in medical debt clogging up Americans ...

More than 52,000 Illinois residents have been relieved of $72 million of medical debt under a state pilot program that ...