… medical debts upon consumer bankruptcy and have made claims regarding the extent to
which medical debts … It is not unreasonable to assume that medical debts have a role to play in …

… medical debts upon consumer bankruptcy and have made claims regarding the extent to
which medical debts … It is not unreasonable to assume that medical debts have a role to play in …

… beyond nonprofit hospitals,(2) defined limits on charges,(3) stricter regulation of medical debt
… Second, a key protection of these laws aims to limit the creation of medical debt. They do …

… debt avoidance is especially critical here as it likely be more difficult to track bad debt as an
expense for the medical … patient-an attitudinal shift that moves beyond collection to education. …

… So to tell the story of medical debt collection, I had to look beyond these sources. Some of
the most useful were trade journals produced by associations of health care executives and …

… of specific debt types, or monetary value of total debt, our research proposes a categorization
of debt into three types (potential wealth-building, problem short-term, and non-loan debt) …

… my belongings and move into a new apartment, since my roommate, who had also been
diagnosed with mental illness, had developed a profound depression and had moved out. He …

… Only 8% of our sample had incomes over $35,000, beyond the range of eligibility for the tax
… qualify to rent a home, and the need to move to a less costly home. These findings establish …

… The literature and the respondents express that the weight of medical debt extends
beyond financial pressure, infusing people's lives with anxiety, tension, and uncertainty. …

… services are small, our collections account data do not extend sufficiently far beyond the date
of debt relief to give us the power to rule out economically significant proportional utilization …