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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

North Carolina recently struck a deal under which hospitals will erase $4 billion in debt as part of a Medicaid expansion plan. California also implemented new protections for people with medical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...