In March of this year, the nationwide credit rating agencies (CRAs), better known as Experian, TransUnion and Equifax, announced a significant change to their score analysis model data. This ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — On Friday, the three main national credit reporting agencies said they’d remove the bulk of medical debt collections from U.S. credit reports. According to their announcement, it ...

You can take several steps to negotiate a medical bill in collections, such as: Start by contacting your health care provider ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Medical bills from an unexpected incident can set you back thousands of dollars. If you're not able to pay it, that debt can haunt you for years. Now, changes are coming to how medical ...

It doesn't take a huge unpaid bill to make a collection agency come calling ... and calling. Researchers found in a study of credit reports that more than 2 percent of adults had medical bills under ...

The good news is, though, that unlike criminal cases, debt collection lawsuits are civil matters, and most medical debt lawsuits won't make it to trial because both parties benefit from reaching an ...

Floyd Medical Center has found success with a payment plan program that pays the entire patient balance upfront, reducing days in AR and keeping cash flowing. As patient out-of-pocket costs increase, ...

Just when you think the U.S. healthcare system couldn’t get more costly, Quest Diagnostics, one of the country’s largest blood testing companies, announced Monday that the personal information of 11.9 ...

It doesn't take a huge unpaid medical bill to make a collection agency come calling ... and calling. Researchers found in a study of credit reports that more than 2 percent of adults had medical bills ...

In a move that will improve the credit scores of millions of Americans, the three major credit bureaus will no longer include most medical debt on consumer credit reports. As of July 1, the companies ...

Americans spend twice as much on health care as people in other wealthy countries, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. For the past two weeks on our series The ...

Three of the country’s largest credit reporting agencies are removing nearly 70% of medical debt from consumer credit reports, the companies announced in a joint statement Friday. In addition, unpaid ...