Registration lead Arilu Pineda, left, at her workstation at Sarasota Memorial Hospital on July 28, 2022, in Sarasota, Fla.

Angelica Leicht is the senior editor for the Managing Your Money section for CBSNews.com, where she writes and edits articles on a range of personal finance topics. Angelica previously held editing ...

In a February 2024 report, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) developed recommendations for the IRS to bolster the results and increase the equity of its private debt collection (PDC) ...

Medical debt has become a full-blown public health emergency; delaying care, worsening illness, deepening inequality, and ...

The three-judge panel unwound U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty’s May 2022 injunction allowing Upsolve Inc. to open a program ...

An ongoing effort to wipe out up to $700 million in medical debt for Wayne County residents has made a discovery some may find surprising. Those most in need of medical debt relief were not the ...

A landmark program created to help eliminate medical debt for those struggling to pay their hospital bills in North Carolina now has uniform support from state hospitals. A landmark program created to ...

Medical debt elimination programs in Oakland and Wayne counties are clearing a combined $36 million owed by residents from unpaid health-related charges. Wayne County’s Department of Health, Human, ...

COOK COUNTY, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - The day before Christmas eve in 2023, Andrew Ciaccio was up all night trying to soothe his stomach pains. When he woke, he could barely sit up. Something ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (Capitol News Illinois) - A state pilot program designed to erase medical debt for 300,000 Illinois residents has already helped thousands eliminate $72 million of debt, the governor ...

Angelica Leicht is the senior editor for the Managing Your Money section for CBSNews.com, where she writes and edits articles on a range of personal finance topics. Angelica previously held editing ...