How North Carolina made its hospitals do something about medical debt
In exchange for federal money, hospitals would wipe out billions of dollars of patient debt and adopt new standards to shield ...
The Herald SC12d
Inside North Carolina’s fight to make hospitals relieve billions of patient debt
North Carolina officials had been quietly laboring for months on an ambitious plan to tackle the state’s mammoth medical debt problem when Gov. Roy Cooper stepped before cameras in July to ...
California Healthline12d
Across North Carolina, Medical Debt Exacts a Heavy Toll
This is probably a low estimate, however, since the credit bureau data and other sources suggest that medical debt is higher ...
The Daily Item10d
Across North Carolina, medical debt exacts a heavy toll. Here's one family's story
Burke is among millions of people burdened by medical ... plans, and loans from friends and family. The KFF survey didn’t include state-specific findings, but if North Carolina’s debt burden ...
Medical Xpress10d
How North Carolina made its hospitals do something about medical debt
North Carolina officials had been quietly laboring for months on an ambitious plan to tackle the state's mammoth medical debt problem when Gov. Roy Cooper stepped before cameras in July to ...
‘Forced into homelessness.’ Across North Carolina, medical debt exacts a heavy toll
Using credit bureau data, the nonprofit Urban Institute calculated that more than 8% of North Carolina consumers had an ...