American consumers are routinely hounded over medical bills they don’t even owe. That’s according to a new report issued Thursday (Nov. 16) by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB),...
America’s consumer watchdog says it’s uncovered deception and abuse in several consumer financial products. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a report Wednesday (July...
Three credit reporting agencies have taken another step in removing medical collection tradelines from credit reports. Equifax, Experian and TransUnion have removed medical collections debt...
As medical bankruptcies continue to plague Americans, PayZen has raised $220 million in new funding as it looks to expand its “affordability financing” offering for...
More than a quarter of consumers have one debt in collections, according to data from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A large swath of that is...
In medicine, it seems there is a side effect for every treatment. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, which was signed into law in...
In 2005, Senator Elizabeth Warren – then a professor – published an academic paper along with David Himmelstein, Deborah Thorne and Steffie Woolhandler, in the journal Health...