It will block health care providers, as well as any contracted collection agency, from sharing a patient’s medical debt with credit reporting agencies.
Legislation signed Tuesday, Sept. 24 by Gov. Gavin Newsom will block health care providers, as well as any contracted collection agency, from sharing a patient’s medical debt with credit reporting agencies. Californians with medical debt will no longer have to worry about unpaid medical bills showing up on their credit reports under legislation signed Tuesday by Gov.
But California lawmakers have left a glaring loophole. Patients who pay hospital bills using medical credit cards or medical specialty loans — which can come with interest ratesthrough late-in-the-game “hostile” amendments, which “influential entities opposed to the measure prevailed” in including, Limón said.
The three largest U.S. credit agencies — Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion — said they would stop listing some medical debt, including paid-off debts and those less than $500, but millions of patients were left with bigger medical bills on their credit reports. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureaureport carrying some type of medical debt, which disproportionately affects low-income, Black, and Latino patients, according to the California Health Care Foundation.
The 44-year-old said her insurance covered tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills but that the hospital miscoded the $200 charge and she never received a bill for it. That, she said, should also have been charged to insurance.
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