Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Josh Stein speaks at a podium labeled “Erasing Medical Debt” beside a screen that reads "$6.5 billion in debt erased for more than ...

(The Center Square) – Updated policies by hospitals and creation of the Medical Debt Relief Program by the former governor has led to 2.5 million North Carolinians being freed of $6.5 billion in ...

CHICAGO, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois has eliminated nearly $430 million in medical debt for residents during the first year of its statewide relief initiative, according to state officials. The Illinois ...

FAR THIS YEAR. IMAGINE WAKING UP TO FIND YOUR MEDICAL DEBT GONE. IT’S HAPPENING ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA, INCLUDING HERE IN THE TRIAD. WXII 12 JOSHUA DAVIS SPOKE WITH A WINSTON-SALEM WOMAN WHO SAYS IT’S ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Medical debt is a burden that affects millions of North Carolinians. “How can I pay off medical debt?” Pitt County resident Marlyn Hemby says. “I don’t want to go back to the ...

A North Carolina program incentivizing hospitals to relieve patients’ medical debts has cut more than $6.5 billion in accrued debts for more than 2.5 million people since launching last summer. The ...

IN 2023. NEW HERE AT NOON, A MEDICAL DEBT PRELIEF MILESTONE IN NORTH CAROLINA. GOVERNOR JOSH STEIN AND THE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY ANNOUNCED MORE THAN $6.5 BILLION HAS BEEN RAISED OVER THE ...