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Court Vacates CFPB Medical Debt Rule: Key Takeaways for Providers

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Earlier this month, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas approved a consent judgment vacating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Medical Debt Rule. The decision holds that the CFPB...more

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CT New Law Alert: Medical Debt Cannot be Reported to Credit Agencies

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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont recently signed a new bill into law that prohibits healthcare providers from reporting patients’ medical debt to credit rating agencies. The law goes into effect on July 1, 2024. In addition,...more

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CO and NY enact laws to prevent reporting of medical debt to credit bureaus

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Colorado and New York are not waiting for the Fair Credit Reporting Act rulemaking to eliminate creditor use of medical debt announced by the CFPB in September 2023. As we previously blogged, in the past two years, Equifax,...more

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New Illinois Protections Against Patient Medical Debt May Also Help Reduce Hospital Bad Debt

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Starting in mid-2024, Illinois hospitals will be required to take a much more active role in limiting consumers’ medical debt by screening all consenting uninsured patients for both public health insurance program coverage...more

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Healthcare Preview for the Week of: June 5, 2023

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Debt Limit Extended . . . Now What? Late last week, Congress reached a bipartisan, bicameral deal to suspend the debt ceiling into 2025. Over the weekend, President Biden signed the bill into law, preventing the United...more

Baker Donelson

D.C. Federal Appeals Court Upholds Disallowances Based on "Must-Bill" Bad Debt Policy

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In a recent blow for providers, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld in New LifeCare Hospitals of N.C., LLC v. Becerra the Medicare program's denial of Medicare bad debt to a group of...more

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Flexibility and Clarification to the Idaho Patient Act

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On March 1, 2021, Idaho Governor Brad Little signed House Bill No. 42, giving healthcare providers additional time to comply with the requirements imposed by the controversial Idaho Patient Act that was signed into law March...more

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New Consequences for Unpaid Medicare Overpayments

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For years, CMS has had the authority to refuse to enroll new Medicare providers if they or their owners have an unpaid Medicare overpayment, but CMS was not exercising this authority. Now, it appears that CMS is going to...more

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Congressional Preview - Fall 2017

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Summer isn’t quite over yet, but the August recess is coming to an end and Congress returns next week to resume work on a number of outstanding issues, as the Trump Administration continues to aggressively implement the...more

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