This webinar will look at medical debt in Native and Indigenous communities, the social and political influences causing an increased risk of medical debt, and what groups on the ground are doing to address this issue.
Watch Recording Read More about Medical Debt Crisis: Impact on Native and Indigenous Families
This webinar will provide a practical, how-to session on accessing and using the hospital price transparency data for those working with clients and/or interested in pushing policy solutions around medical debt.
Watch Recording Read More about Hospital Price Transparency: Understanding and Using the Data
NCLC is supporting S.5150- Strengthening Consumer Protections and Medical Debt Transparency Act, introduced by Sens. Murphy and Van Hollen. The law would help protect consumers from abusive debt collection practices, and would require more reporting from hospitals about their debt collection practices. NCLC provided a quote for the press release.
Read More about S.5150 - Strengthening Consumer Protections and Medical Debt Transparency Act
Comments to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services In previous comments filed on September 8, 2021, NCLC raised several concerns about aspects of the proposed TennCare III waiver, i.e., that the Tennessee Medicaid program should not waive the 90-day retroactive eligibility period for Medicaid applicants, should not be designed as a block grant,…
Read More about Comments on Amendment Four of Tennessee’s TennCare III Demonstration Application
Expenses for life-saving or medically necessary care are often unexpected, and can throw a family into an immediate financial crisis. This crisis is compounded when families cannot pay for these surprise expenses and the debt is reported to credit bureaus. The blemishes on a credit report (which employers and landlords as well as creditors may…
Read More about Don't Add Insult to Injury: Medical Debt & Credit Reports
Letter highlighting important additional actions that the CFPB should take to protect and assist consumers with medical debts in collection.
Medical debt harms tens of millions of consumers, with nearly 1 in 6 Americans contacted by a debt collector over a healthcare bill, and 21% of residents in mainly nonwhite zip codes with at least one medical debt in collection on their credit reports.
Read More about What States Can Do to Help Consumers: Medical Debt
Towards Justice, the National Consumer Law Center, and Vedra Law LLC Claim Illegal a Large- Medical Debt Collection in Colorado
Read More about UCHealth Patients Sue Debt Collector in Denver District Court
Medical debt is one of the most prevalent types of consumer debt. 13% of Oregon residents inpredominantly white zip codes have one or more medical debts in collection on their creditreports, increasing to 15% for residents of predominantly non-white zip codes. Among U.S.consumers, 52% of collection items on credit reports are for medical debts. Medical…
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