Legislation advancing through Senate committee would standardize hospital financial assistance and prevent medical debt from ...

Just months after Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a Washington law to keep medical debt off consumers’ credit reports, the Trump ...

The credit reporting bureau released a new model that combines traditional and alternative credit history with cashflow data ...

Just months after Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a Washington law to keep medical debt off consumers’ credit reports, the Trump ...

If certain state laws are voided, millions of consumers with unpaid medical debt could see negative marks appear — or reappear — on their credit reports.

The Trump administration wants to thwart state efforts to remove medical debt from credit reports, potentially eroding ...

Medical debt is an often unmanageable or unpredictable challenge that just hits people like a ton of bricks out of nowhere,” said AG Weiser.

Free money from Zelle or Cash App—just for filling out a government form? That’s what some TikTok videos claim. But Consumer ...

Nationwide, about 100 million people have some form of health care debt, with millions burdened by $10,000 or more in unpaid ...

ACA International, an association of credit and collection professionals, filed a federal lawsuit against Colorado on Nov. 5 ...

The Biden-era CFPB concluded that medical debts provide little predictive value to lenders about borrowers’ ability to repay other debts, and consumers frequently report receiving inaccurate bills or ...

Senate Bill 1061 (SB 1061), authored by Senator Monique Limón (D-Santa Barbara) and sponsored by Attorney General Bonta, went into effect on January 1, 2025, and protects consumers from having their ...