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Barberton is the latest community to join Akron in looking to relieve some qualified consumers’ medical debt. Here’s the latest information.

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Some Columbus residents could get letters in the mail informing them of voided medical debt by late summer, if Columbus City Council greenlights an ordinance to partner with a national debt forgiveness nonprofit.

The plan would have Columbus use $2 million American Rescue Plan dollars to partner with RIP Medical Debt. The non-profit uses donated funds to buy bundled debt from hospitals at a fraction of the original cost.

Access Health and RIP Medical Debt (RIP) have formally entered into a partnership that will last two years, with the goal of engaging West Michigan hospitals for RIP to acquire and abolish their qualifying medical debts, create local solutions for medical debt and help increase awareness of health plan options and identify barriers to affordable coverage.

Trinity Presbyterian Church and other churches in the region raised money to forgive $13.3 million of medical debt for low-income families.

FCC Worcester will be partnering with the nonprofit organization RIP Medical Debt to forgive medical debts for individuals across Massachusetts.

DUNEDIN — The Rev. Bob Swick challenged his congregation at St. Francis of Assisi, Old Catholic Church to raise $15,000 to pay off peoples medical debt across Pinellas County.

Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal Imagine getting a letter from a collection agency saying your outstanding medical debt had been paid off and credit agencies were notified the obligation had been cleared. That’s exactly what happened for 234 people in New Mexico and 548 in Arizona who collectively had nearly $1.4 million in medical debt wiped out thanks to a $15,000 contribution from St. Bede’s Episcopal Church in Santa Fe. The Rev. M. Catherine Volland, rector of St. Bede’s Episcopa...

‘Blown away’: Spokane Valley church raising money to help pay off millions in medical debt By Greg Mason, The Spokesman-Review Published: December 30, 2020, 8:52am Share: SPOKANE — Fifteen-year-old Kristal Nieland was going into her sophomore year of high school when she was diagnosed with leukemia. Nieland spent nearly two years in and out of hospitals for treatments — still somehow finding the strength to attend her senior prom along the way, said her mother, Shirley Ca...