North Carolina officials had been quietly laboring for months on an ambitious plan to tackle the state's mammoth medical debt ...

State officials threatened to withhold public money from hospitals, pioneering a strategy that could become a national model.

This is probably a low estimate, however, since the credit bureau data and other sources suggest that medical debt is higher ...

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 ...

Using credit bureau data, the nonprofit Urban Institute calculated that more than 8% of North Carolina consumers had an ...