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Colorado bill wants hospitals to put their names on medical debt lawsuits

Colorado lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require hospitals to use their own names when suing patients over unpaid medical bills. ....

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shuts down medical debt collector

CFPB shuts down Commonwealth Financial Systems for illegally trying to collect unverified medical debts. ....

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CFPB Launches FCRA Rulemaking to Eliminate Creditor Use of Medical Debt | Ballard Spahr LLP

On September 21, 2023, with limited time to digest the comments received by September 11, 2023 from the request for information regarding medical payment products, the Consumer. ....

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Federal bureau unveils proposals to remove medical debt from credit reports

The CFPB has proposed removing medical bills from credit reports to end coercive debt collection tactics and improve credit score predictiveness. ....

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1 in 5 Americans has medical debt in collections, study finds. It's worse in the South

The amount of medical debt sent to collections agencies in the U.S. decreased from 2009-2020, a study published this year found. But that wasn't the case in the South, where that number actually increased. Harvard Business School professor Raymond Kluender, one of the study's authors, joins us to explain the findings on part 11 of The Price We Pay, WFAE's series examining the cost of American health care. ....

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