Tag Archives: Healthcare Legislation

A bill is progressing through the Maryland legislature that, if passed, would require the state to develop a process that identifies individuals who paid for hospital services that may have otherwise qualified for free care under existing state law and reimburse those individuals for the money they paid. If enacted, …

Using a recently released report out of North Carolina, The Wall Street Journal yesterday published an article detailing how state legislatures across the country have enacted laws or are working on doing so in an effort to “limit aggressive debt-collection practices.” The Journal focuses its attention on many of the …

The Financial Institution Division (FID) of Nevada’s Department of Business and Industry will be holding a virtual workshop on Tuesday, October 26 at 1pm ET to solicit comments from interested persons about regulations related to SB248, a new medical debt collection law that went into effect earlier this year. The …

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 …

The plaintiffs in a suit that was filed seeking to overturn a new medical debt collection law in Nevada have filed a motion to amend their complaint, seeking to add in a new argument that the law creates a false sense of urgency in violation of the Fair Debt Collection …

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 hearing is scheduled for this afternoon in before a federal judge in Nevada courtroom attorneys representing a dozen collection agencies and ACA International will seek to obtain a temporary restraining order blocking legislation that governs how medical debts are collected in the state. The law went into effect on …

A dozen collection agencies, plus ACA International and the Nevada Collectors Association have filed a lawsuit against the state of Nevada seeking to block the enactment of a new law that governs how medical debts are to be collected in the state. The new law is scheduled to go into …

A group of Senate Democrats are calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to prohibit reporting medical debt collection tradelines to credit bureaus, further limiting the number of communication attempts beyond what is included in Regulation F, and know whether a consumer is appealing the denial of coverage with his …

As evidenced by a recently held webinar on AccountsRecovery.net, there are a lot more questions than answers about a soon-to-be-enacted medical debt collection law in Nevada. But, thanks to some questions submitted to the Financial Institutions Division of the Nevada Department of Business and Industry, there are some answers to …