Gov. Matt Meyer signed the Medical Debt Protection Act into law, which will prevent medical debt from appearing in a consumer credit report, on July 29. KFF, a nonprofit focused on health policy, ...

Roughly 100 million Americans carry some form of medical debt, including many Virginia patients. In the 2025 session, the ...

Legislators in several states are advancing medical debt protections, even as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau maintains that states cannot regulate consumer credit reports, KFF Health News ...

Some states are enacting medical debt laws as the Trump administration pulls back federal protections. Elsewhere, industry opposition has derailed... With the Trump administration scaling back federal ...

Creditors can sue you in retirement, but they certainly can't take everything. So, what's protected and what isn't?

Medical credit cards are offered to patients in healthcare settings as a solution to pay off medical debt, often featuring enticing interest-free or deferred interest rate periods of several months.

It’s a credit card service that might catch your eye. If you lose your job or fall into other financial hardship, you can cancel or defer payments in exchange for a monthly fee. But a new government ...

The CFPB’s role in enforcing consumer protections may diminish as the federal agency undergoes changes and possible elimination. Consumers can still report issues to the FTC, OCC and state attorneys ...