TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — On Friday, the three main national credit reporting agencies said they’d remove the bulk of medical debt collections from U.S. credit reports. According to their announcement, it ...

It doesn't take a huge unpaid bill to make a collection agency come calling ... and calling. Researchers found in a study of credit reports that more than 2 percent of adults had medical bills under ...

You can take several steps to negotiate a medical bill in collections, such as: Start by contacting your health care provider ...

In March of this year, the nationwide credit rating agencies (CRAs), better known as Experian, TransUnion and Equifax, announced a significant change to their score analysis model data. This ...

In today's healthcare landscape, even a brief hospital visit can leave behind a mountain of bills. And with insurance not always covering everything — or in some cases, anything — many Americans are ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Medical bills from an unexpected incident can set you back thousands of dollars. If you're not able to pay it, that debt can haunt you for years. Now, changes are coming to how medical ...

Equifax, Experian and TransUnion have announced they will collectively remove nearly 70% of medical collection debt tradelines from credit reports. UNPAID MEDICAL BILLS ACCOUNT FOR 58% OF DEBT IN ...

Just when you think the U.S. healthcare system couldn’t get more costly, Quest Diagnostics, one of the country’s largest blood testing companies, announced Monday that the personal information of 11.9 ...

Floyd Medical Center has found success with a payment plan program that pays the entire patient balance upfront, reducing days in AR and keeping cash flowing. As patient out-of-pocket costs increase, ...

It doesn't take a huge unpaid medical bill to make a collection agency come calling ... and calling. Researchers found in a study of credit reports that more than 2 percent of adults had medical bills ...

Americans spend twice as much on health care as people in other wealthy countries, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. For the past two weeks on our series The ...

Three of the country’s largest credit reporting agencies are removing nearly 70% of medical debt from consumer credit reports, the companies announced in a joint statement Friday. In addition, unpaid ...