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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

A state pilot program designed to erase medical debt for 300,000 Illinois residents has already helped thousands eliminate $72 million of debt, the governor’s office announced Thursday. The Medical ...

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

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 ...