Consumers can prevent medical bills from going to collections. And they can help or hurt themselves if a bill gets to that point.

Getting hit with a medical bill you thought your insurance would pay is an all-too-common situation. There are two ways to combat surprise medical bills, whether they come from an emergency situa ...

Contact the collection agency and the medical provider to ensure that inaccurate information about unpaid medical bills is taken off your credit report.

How to Fight Back When Contacted by a Debt Collector for a Medical Bill Here's what one consumer and a CR reporter learned when dealing with a collection agency ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — If you’ve ever been contacted by a collection agency over medical debt, you’re not alone. Over 40 million people have unpaid medical bills sent to collections.

The debt followed her throughout her twenties, hurting her credit and leading to stressful calls from collection agencies. Her experience is all too common.

You still owe these medical bills, and medical debt collectors can still contact you. It only means this debt will no longer be part of your credit report. Medical organizations and collection ...

In March of this year, the three major nationwide credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) announced there would be substantial changes to medical collection debt reporting ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to eliminate all medical debt from credit reports. Will President-elect Trump allow it?

Nonprofit RIP Medical Debt buys up unpaid hospital bills plaguing low-income patients and frees them from having to pay.

How does unpaid medical debt now impact credit reports? Unpaid medical debt is usually handed over to a collection agency after 60 to 120 days of delinquency.