Journalist Assesses Federal Push to Remove Medical Debt From Credit Reports

KFF Health News senior correspondent Noam N. Levey discussed medical debt and the debt-buying market with WBUR’s On Point on Sept. 21. He also discussed the Biden administration’s proposal to bar medical debt from appearing on credit reports with NPR’s Morning Edition on Sept. 22.

Click here to hear Levey on WBUR
Click here to hear Levey on NPR
Read Levey’s “Biden Administration to Ban Medical Debt From Americans’ Credit Scores”
Read more from the “Diagnosis: Debt” series

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<h1>Journalist Assesses Federal Push to Remove Medical Debt From Credit Reports</h1>
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			September 23, 2023		</time>
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<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Noam N. Levey discussed medical debt and the debt-buying market with WBUR’s On Point on Sept. 21. He also discussed the Biden administration’s proposal to bar medical debt from appearing on credit reports with NPR’s Morning Edition on Sept. 22.</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/09/21/buy-and-sell-medical-debt-health-care">Click here to hear Levey on WBUR</a></li><li><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/09/21/1200834434/medical-debt-credit-score-cfpb-biden">Click here to hear Levey on NPR</a></li><li>Read Levey’s “<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/medical-debt-credit-score-ban-biden-administration/">Biden Administration to Ban Medical Debt From Americans’ Credit Scores</a>”</li><li>Read more from the “<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/diagnosis-debt/">Diagnosis: Debt</a>” series</li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/biden-cfpb-rules-medical-debt-credit-scores-reports/?share=x">				Click to share on X (Opens in new window)				X			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/biden-cfpb-rules-medical-debt-credit-scores-reports/?share=facebook">				Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)				Facebook			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/biden-cfpb-rules-medical-debt-credit-scores-reports/?share=linkedin">				Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)				LinkedIn			</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Journalist%20Assesses%20Federal%20Push%20to%20Remove%20Medical%20Debt%20From%20Credit%20Reports&body=https%3A%2F%2Fkffhealthnews.org%2FMTc1MTE4OA&share=email">				Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)				Email			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/biden-cfpb-rules-medical-debt-credit-scores-reports/#print?share=print">				Click to print (Opens in new window)				Print			</a></li></ul><em><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.</em><p><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.</p><p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/biden-cfpb-rules-medical-debt-credit-scores-reports/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org">KFF Health News</a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img src="https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=150" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://kffhealthnews.org/?republication-pixel=true&post=1751188&amp;ga4=G-J74WWTKFM0" style="width:1px;height:1px;"></p>

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