February Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
In February we stayed out of the cold and bundled up with the latest in health policy research. We r...
Posts tagged with: medical debt
Biden Administration Proposes Rule To Ban Medical Debt From Credit Reporting
State Options for Making Hospital Financial Assistance Programs More Accessible
October Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
State Protections Against Medical Debt: A Look at Policies Across the U.S.
July Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
March Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
September Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
June Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
New Data Show Medical Debt Disproportionately Affects the Most Vulnerable Populations
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Biden Administration Proposes Rule To Ban Medical Debt From Credit Reporting
In response to widespread concerns about the impact of medical debt, the Consumer Financial Protecti...
State Options for Making Hospital Financial Assistance Programs More Accessible
According to recent estimates, almost 100 million people have debt because of medical or dental bill...
October Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
In preparation for Health Policy Halloween, CHIR read up on the latest health policy research. In Oc...
State Protections Against Medical Debt: A Look at Policies Across the U.S.
Medical debt is one of the leading causes of bankruptcy in the United States. Though federal law pro...
July Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
CHIR’s summer reading list includes the latest health policy literature. In July, we read about th...
March Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
Winter is finally over, and health policy research is in full bloom. In March, we read about dispari...
September Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
It's officially fall, and along with the new season came an autumnal bounty of new health policy res...
June Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
It’s finally summer, and during the latest heat wave, the CHIR team cooled off with new health pol...
New Data Show Medical Debt Disproportionately Affects the Most Vulnerable Populations
Unpaid medical bills are among the largest contributors to personal debt in the United States. Evide...
Aggressive Medical Debt Collections: COVID-related Consumer Protections Could be a Model for Long-term Relief
A new investigative report shows that even the COVID-19 crisis has not stopped many hospital systems...
This Tax Filing Season, Many Will Spend their Refunds on Health Care
As tax filing season comes to a close, CHIR's Emily Curran discusses recent findings by the JPMorgan...
January 2018 Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
In the past month, new research highlights the regressive effects of high health plan cost sharing. ...
5M Fewer Americans Report Problems Paying Medical Bills, but Probably Not Because of the ACA (Yet)
Last week the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics published a report documenting a decline...
New Report Looks At Factors Leading to Medical Debt Among People With Insurance
The Kaiser Family Foundation—in collaboration with CHIR experts Kevin Lucia and Katie Keith—has...
Breast Cancer Patient Had to Become a Fundraiser to Make Up for Insurance Plan Shortcomings
When Stacy Cook learned she had breast cancer, her health coverage fell short. In this latest story ...