Gov. Matt Meyer signed the Medical Debt Protection Act into law, which will prevent medical debt from appearing in a consumer credit report, on July 29. KFF, a nonprofit focused on health policy, ...

Illinois residents have seen more than $1.1 billion in medical debt erased, with the help of a state program that launched ...

Legislators in several states are advancing medical debt protections, even as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau maintains that states cannot regulate consumer credit reports, KFF Health News ...

Some states are enacting medical debt laws as the Trump administration pulls back federal protections. Elsewhere, industry opposition has derailed... With the Trump administration scaling back federal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new state law preventing medical debt from appearing in a consumer credit report officially took effect on Oct. 27. First signed ...

Esmerelda, who did not give her last name, is a lot like others who are living in fear of being arrested by roaming federal immigration agents. She told her story during an emotional meeting of the ...

The boom-and-bust cycle isn’t limited just to so-called advanced economies. It also has become a way of life in the economies ...

With the Trump administration scaling back federal efforts to protect Americans from medical bills they can't pay, advocates for patients and consumers have shifted their work to contain the nation's ...