Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Josh Stein speaks at a podium labeled “Erasing Medical Debt” beside a screen that reads "$6.5 billion in debt erased for more than ...

FAR THIS YEAR. IMAGINE WAKING UP TO FIND YOUR MEDICAL DEBT GONE. IT’S HAPPENING ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA, INCLUDING HERE IN THE TRIAD. WXII 12 JOSHUA DAVIS SPOKE WITH A WINSTON-SALEM WOMAN WHO SAYS IT’S ...

CHICAGO, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois has eliminated nearly $430 million in medical debt for residents during the first year of its statewide relief initiative, according to state officials. The Illinois ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Medical debt is a burden that affects millions of North Carolinians. “How can I pay off medical debt?” Pitt County resident Marlyn Hemby says. “I don’t want to go back to the ...

A North Carolina program incentivizing hospitals to relieve patients’ medical debts has cut more than $6.5 billion in accrued debts for more than 2.5 million people since launching last summer. The ...

The weight of carrying debt month after month can be extremely heavy, and, over time, it can have a real impact on your financial health. Whether it's from medical bills that piled up after an ...

ALL RIGHT, KELLY THANK YOU. DEVELOPING RIGHT NOW. GOVERNOR JOSH STEIN WAS BACK IN THE TRIAD THIS AFTERNOON HOLDING A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON MEDICAL DEBT AND HOW IT NEGATIVELY IMPACTS ROUGHLY 2.5 ...