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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.