North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein announced on Monday, Oct. 13, 2025 that the state’s medical debt relief program has eliminated $6.5 billion in medical debt. (Photo: Brandon Kingdollar/NC Newsline)
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein announced Monday that the state’s medical debt relief initiative has eliminated roughly $6.5 billion in medical debt for 2.5 million North Carolinians.
The program, launched under former Gov. Roy Cooper last July, has far surpassed its initial projection of $4 billion in alleviated debt, and Stein and Health and Human Services Secretary Dev Sangvai said they will continue to search for debts to alleviate.
Focused on debt deemed “uncollectible,” the relief program incentivized the state’s 99 acute care…