The Latest Breaking News from RIP Medical Debt

The city is partnering with the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt to buy up and forgive unpaid medical bills. The trend started in Cook County, Ill., and is spreading to cities across the country.

Analysts say a ‘sea change’ occurred in the American healthcare system from when only a tenth of debt came from the insured

More than 22,000 patients of Trinity Health of New England will have their medical debts erased after an agreement with RIP Medical Debt, a national nonprofit.

Under this new model, everyday Americans are receiving letters letting them know that their crippling medical debt has been canceled.

An increasing number of municipal, county and state governments are using federal pandemic relief funds to pay residents’ burdensome medical debt

The CEO of a nonprofit that helps people with medical debt wants to expand the amount of debt her organization buys, especially from hospitals

Nikiesha Barnett had knee surgery in 2006 and took unpaid leave from her job as a Georgia hospital coordinator while she was recovering

“Washington may not have a plan for medical debt relief but Toledo, Ohio does."

They began as debt collectors, trying to get people burdened by medical costs to pay up. But the conversations they had persuaded them to do something else — something better. Through listening to people explain their struggles, Craig Antico and Jerry Ashton “would understand and have better insights into the…