If healthcare entities believe that people won't pay their medical bills at the margin, they'll likely raise prices.

E verything is negotiable, as the saying goes—and that includes medical bills. Although many people assume their health care bills are binding, there’s often more wiggle room than one would think.

Medical debt is one of the most overwhelming financial burdens many Americans face. Despite the best health insurance, bills ...

The departure of the CFPB director comes as congressional Republicans look at changes to the agency and Democrats defend it.

About 1 in 6 Hoosier families have medical debt in collections. A bill that hopes to help them has bipartisan support in the Indiana senate.

Most of the medical debt didn't belong to the poorest patients, but rather insured people in the middle- and lower-middle class.

The fate of a Biden-era rule that would keep medical debt from consumers’ credit reports is up in the air amid reported stoppages within the Consumer Financial ... help the more than 100 million ...

Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rolled out an exciting announcement: It will be banning medical debt from Americans ... Those credit scores help determine people’s ...

(Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Community Catalyst) The Consumer Financial ... debt includes guidance issued in January to curb improper medical debt collections and publish resources ...

A key federal funding commitment has been renewed that's at the heart of making possible North Carolina's ground-breaking ...

Concerns about medical debt ... 60% to 80% of “bad debt” write-offs across the health care industry are for patients who might have qualified for financial assistance but didn’t apply.

The hospital bill arrives in the mail, and you’re tempted to throw it away (again) without opening it. After all, you don’t have the money to pay for that trip you took to the emergency room. Ignoring ...