When you receive a medical bill, that dollar amount you're charged doesn't have to necessarily be the final say. Believe it or not, you can actually negotiate your medical bills—even once they're in ...

Many women today struggle to to pay their healthcare bills, for reasons that include income inequality. Here are the ...

Medical debt has long been one of the quietest financial burdens in the U.S., but lately, it's become almost impossible to ignore the issue. After all, rising healthcare costs, inflation-driven ...

Medical debt has become one of the most disruptive financial issues Americans face today. Even with health insurance, high deductibles and surprise billing can leave households owing thousands of ...

ALBANY- The number of hospital debt lawsuits and debtors have plunged following changes to state laws around medical debt collection, according to a new report by an advocacy organization. The eight ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - An Ohio lawmaker from Toledo is pushing legislation to protect patients from aggressive medical debt collection practices, citing cases like a small-town hospital that sued 2,700 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A bipartisan pair of Ohio lawmakers want to keep medical debt from tanking people’s credit or garnishing their paychecks. The Ohio Medical Debt Fairness Act, introduced Tuesday, ...

Ooda Health, a startup company with offices in San Francisco and Salt Lake City, is running a pilot program with insurers and hospitals as it tries to fix healthcare’s medical billing problems, ...

FORT WAYNE — Parkview Health announced this week that it has partnered with national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt to abolish ...

Stacey Knoll thought the court summons she received was a scam. She didn’t remember getting any medical bills from Montrose Regional Health, a nonprofit hospital, after a 2020 emergency room visit. So ...

Are medical bill collection accounts buried away inside millions of consumers' credit files - even bills that were fully paid or settled years ago - functioning as a drag on the housing market? That ...

The Idaho Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Idaho Patient Act, a law designed to rein in aggressive ...