Healthcare

When the federal government declares the COVID-19 public health emergency to finally be over, as many as 15 million individuals could lose their health insurance coverage through Medicaid, according to a new study, which would likely result in a lot more medical debt to be collected for the accounts receivable …

It’s one thing to defraud healthcare insurers and Medicaid for millions of dollars, and to “loot” hundreds of thousands of dollars from banks under the Paycheck Protection Program, but did the guy have to initiate debt collection proceedings against the patients he was bilking, too? In for a penny, in …

The California state Senate has followed the Assembly in passing AB1020, a bill that would restrict hospitals from selling certain patient debts, require collectors to certify that patients have been screened for public programs and financial assistance before filing a collection lawsuit, and extend the period before a debt could …

Offering a “microcosm” of the “national problem” of the financial issues caused by illness and injuries leading to individuals being forced to file for bankruptcy protection, a state consumer advocacy group has published a report detailing that 60% of bankruptcy filings included some form of medical debt. The report, which …

The influx of media reports aimed at spotlighting “aggressive” collection efforts by hospitals and healthcare networks has led to a “substantial” decline in the number of lawsuits filed against individuals with unpaid healthcare debts, according to a new study. Looking at the number of collection lawsuits filed in Virginia before …

By Leslie Bender, Senior Counsel, Clark Hill Leslie Bender Since 2019, the National Consumer Law Center (“NCLC”) has worked in a well-organized manner to develop grass roots support throughout the fifty states for legislation to impose restrictions on a wide range of activities related to medical debt collections.[1] NCLC reports that …

Where employers continue to back away from offering health insurance to their employees, the government is stepping in to pick up the slack, according to data released yesterday detailing the number of adults in the United States who do not have health insurance. The rate of uninsured adults held steady …

The author of a recently released study that estimated how much medical debt is being carried by individuals across the United States has published an op-ed that calls on state and federal governments to boost their protections of individuals from the “burden of medical debt.” Neale Mahoney, a professor and …

After watching medical debt collection laws pass in a number of states this year, including Nevada and Maryland, the accounts receivable management industry might want to pay attention to what is now going on in Arizona, as a ballot initiative has been started to get a “Predatory Debt Collection Practices …

A hospital is Mississippi is being called out for its aggressive debt collection practices of suing patients with unpaid medical debts, which is also being used to call for reforming how medical debts are collected in the state, including limiting the monthly payments for patients with unpaid debts owed to …