Relieve all medical debt deemed uncollectible dating back to Jan. 1, 2014, for any individuals not enrolled in Medicaid with incomes at or below at least 350% of the federal poverty level (FPL) or ...

A plan unveiled at the beginning of this month by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to leverage Medicaid funds to help North Carolinians struggling with medical debt has been approved by the federal ...

CMS has approved North Carolina’s plan to push hospitals to relieve $4 billion in medical debt for about 2 million low and middle-income people. The state’s health and human services ...

Confronting Medical Debt in North Carolina. A first-of-its-kind state initiative is expected to help people with big hospital bills they can’t pay and to reduce the risk that more North ...

All 99 of North Carolina’s eligible hospitals have opted into the state’s plan to relieve $4 billion in medical debt for about 2 million low and middle-income people.

North Carolina’s 99 hospitals have signed on to an ambitious state plan designed to relieve and prevent medical debt for thousands of lower-income residents. In exchange, hospitals will receive ...

North Carolina’s Health leaders say all eligible hospitals have singed on to the state’s plan to relieve medical ... Medical debt relief plan approved for North Carolina ©2024 Cox Media Group. 0.

Past medical debt that exceeds 5 percent of a patient's annual income will also be forgiven. The plan was approved by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on July 26.

The state estimates the impact as about $4 billion, with almost two million low to middle-income residents having over a decade of debt relief. “Medical debt is not a choice, and it’s monumental to ...

North Carolina officials had been quietly laboring for months on an ambitious plan to tackle the state's mammoth medical debt problem when Gov. Roy Cooper stepped before cameras in July to ...

In North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper announced that nearly 100 hospitals had signed on to the state’s Medical Debt Relief Incentive Program, which incentivizes hospitals who participate in ...