Noam N. Levey - KFF Health News

The regulations, proposed in June, ban credit agencies from including medical debts on consumers’ credit reports and prohibit lenders from considering medical information in assessing borrowers.

The Biden administration unveiled regulations that potentially would help tens of millions of people who have medical debt on their credit reports.

Saddled with debt from health care, many Americans are forced into painful tradeoffs. And some are losing their homes.

Within two years of North Carolina’s public university system going into business with AccessOne to finance patients’ payment plans, nearly half of its patients were in loans that charged interest.

In a new report, the organization urges stronger federal and state action to hold hospitals to account for a medical debt crisis that now burdens more than 100 million Americans.

Pressure is mounting on Congress and the Biden administration to make permanent pandemic-inspired rules that fueled telehealth growth.

A report recommends that all Americans select a primary care provider or be assigned one, a landmark step that could reorient how care is delivered in the nation’s fragmented medical system.

The $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill expands subsidies for private insurance plans. That will lighten the burden on consumers, but it locks taxpayers into yet more support for the health care industry.