JUDGE DENIES MTD IN FDCPA CASE OVER DISPUTED DEBT
- A District Court judge in Ohio has denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss after it was sued for allegedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by not effectively communicating to a credit bureau that a debt had been disputed.
CONGRESSWOMAN LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION INTO HOW PROPOSED COLLECTION RULE POSSIBLY INTERFERES WITH HIPAA
- A member of the House Financial Services Committee has written a letter to Kathleen Kraninger, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Alex Azar, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, calling on the two agencies to get together and make sure that the proposed debt collection rule from the CFPB does not open loopholes that “may place patients’ protected health information at risk.”
FORMER CFPB DIRECTOR REVEALS HOW CLOSE HE CAME TO BEING FIRED ON EVE OF SUPREME COURT HEARING
- As the Supreme Court gets set to hear arguments into the constitutionality of the leadership structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau this week, former director Richard Cordray said in his recently published book that he believes the reason he received an unscheduled phone call he took from the White House — which was abruptly terminated — was to fire him.
DATA BREAKS DOWN COST OF INPATIENT STAY ON STATE-BY-STATE BASIS
- Newly published data breaks down the average daily expenses for an inpatient stay at different types of hospitals, allowing companies that collect on medical debt to compare how much it costs in the states in which they operate against the rest of the country.
EXPERTS DISH ON TRENDING COMPLIANCE TOPICS
- Click here to read this week’s Compliance Digest. You’ll get insights and opinions from 10 different compliance experts — David Kaminski, Stefanie Jackman, Lauren Burnette, Lauren Valenzuela, Porter Heath Morgan, Stephen Iglesias, Laurie Nelson, Aylix K. Jensen, Shannon Miller, and Rick Perr — discussing the impact of recent court cases and legislative updates. You’re not going to get that kind of varied perspective anywhere else. The Compliance Digest is sponsored by The Bedard Law Group.
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