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A first-of-its-kind state initiative is expected to help people with big hospital bills they can’t pay and to reduce the risk that more North Carolinians face the same plight. ... for charity ...
Undue Medical Debt, formerly RIP Medical Debt, [1] is a Long Island City–based 501(c)(3) charity [2] focused on the elimination of personal medical debt. [3] Founded in 2014 by former debt collection executives Jerry Ashton and Craig Antico, [4] the charity purchases portfolios of income-qualifying medical debt from debt collectors and healthcare providers, and then relieves the debt. [5]
The state’s plan could bring relief to up to 2 million North Carolinians. But it won’t help everyone.
The state of New Jersey has a program to provide reimbursements to hospitals and other health care institutions which provide uncompensated or under-compensated health care to patients lacking private health insurance whose income falls below a certain amount but is too high to qualify them for Medicaid and are not old enough to be eligible for Medicare (New Jersey's situation is somewhat ...
Next, Kelmar said people should check if they qualify for financial assistance through a hospital policy or government program like Medicaid. "That might actually eliminate your bill or give you a ...
In December 2014, PEPFAR announced a program PEPFAR 3.0 focusing on Sustainable Control of the AIDS epidemic. This program was designed to address the UNAIDS "90-90-90" global goal: 90 percent of people with HIV diagnosed, 90 percent of them on ART and 90 percent of them virally suppressed by the year 2020. [12]
A broad coalition is backing state legislation that would impose a first-in-the-nation cap on medical bills -- aimed at New York's hospitals that own or house outpatient clinics and charge higher ...
A hospital cannot delay treatment while determining whether a patient can pay or is insured, but that does not mean the hospital is completely forbidden from asking for or running a credit check. If a patient fails to pay the bill, the hospital can sue the patient, and the unsatisfied judgment will likely appear on the patient's credit report.