Medical Debt Changes & Health Impacts

This episode is brought to you by Semafor Healthcare.Delivered weekly from David Lim, Semafor Healthcare connects the dots between decisions in government, business, and technology to reveal how they impact the future of healthcare. Each edition will provide the analysis you need to understand and stay ahead of a rapidly changing landscape. Subscribe for free.This month, three US credit reporting agencies - Equifax, Experian and TransUnion - announced changes to medical collection debt reporting, which will remove nearly 70% of medical collection debt tradelines from consumer credit reports.As financial security is a major social determinant of health, Health Affairs' Leslie Erdelack and Chris Fleming join Health Affairs This Week to discuss medical debt changes and their potential impact of the changes on health.Related Links:No Surprises Act: Known Impacts on Surprise Medical Bills & What's Next (Health Affairs This Week)Medical Debt Burden In The United States (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)Charity Care Needs To Be Better Than This (Health Affairs)The Burden of Medical Debt in the United States (Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker)Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Castro | Stitcher | Deezer | Overcast Subscribe to Semafor Healthcare for free.