Many hospital systems in North Carolina stood to get nearly twice as much money by agreeing to participate in the debt relief ...

North Carolina officials had been quietly laboring for months on an ambitious plan to tackle the state’s mammoth medical debt problem when Gov. Roy Cooper stepped before cameras in July to ...

According to Dr. Rishi Manchanda, a former board member of the nonprofit organization RIP Medical Debt, 'Debt is no ... potential pushback of the North Carolina plan to the criticism Barack ...

Medical debt remains a more polarizing issue in Washington, where the Biden administration has pushed several efforts to ...

Severely injured after the crash, Burke was airlifted from the Fort Liberty U.S. Army base in North Carolina to UNC Medical Center ... but also other debt patients incur to pay for health care, ...

Burke is among millions of people burdened by medical ... plans, and loans from friends and family. The KFF survey didn’t include state-specific findings, but if North Carolina’s debt burden ...

Medical debt is no small issue within the American healthcare system. It often becomes a burden for patients and makes them hesitate to seek future care. A KFF analysis found that 41% of US adults ...

North Carolina officials had been quietly laboring for months on an ambitious plan to tackle the state’s mammoth medical debt problem when Gov. Roy Cooper stepped before cameras in July to ...