Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. St. Peters Health Partners was one of more than 50 hospitals in the state that was found to have placed liens on patients' homes ...

The shift in Connecticut is moving medical debt collections into a less regulated realm ...

Medical debt has become one of the most disruptive financial issues Americans face today. Even with health insurance, high deductibles and surprise billing can leave households owing thousands of ...

Medical bills don't always arrive at a convenient moment, if there even is such a thing. These types of expenses tend to show up in the middle of job changes, family challenges or long periods of ...

A new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule means consumers’ hospital and doctor bills can no longer weigh down their ...

Medical debt is unfortunately synonymous with healthcare in the United States. Approximately 41% of Americans have debt for medical or dental bills – meaning they are currently owing a bill, being ...

This is a lot of people not just milking the system but making deliberate economic decisions to exploit a vulnerable ...

Physicians, dentists and other non-hospital providers account for more than 80% of health care debt collection cases in Connecticut courts.

Rising medical debt, and the methods used to collect it, is a symptom of a larger illness in American health care.

Indiana families are increasingly forced to choose between paying for healthcare and avoiding crushing debt, with nearly one in five Hoosiers having medical bills in collections. A Fort Wayne mother’s ...

Many hospital systems in Connecticut have stopped suing their patients over unpaid bills, stung by criticism about the harm ...