PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Gov. Katie Hobbs announced Monday that 141,000 more Arizonans have had their medical debt erased.
The state allocated American Rescue Plan funding to the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt, which buys medical debt from hospitals and collection agencies for pennies on the dollar and cancels it.
The latest round of debt relief brings the program’s total to $642 million in eliminated medical debt for more than 485,000 people across Arizona. The debt relief letters should start showing up in mailboxes this week.
“I am committed to helping Arizonans achieve economic stability and prosperity. By erasing medical debt for hundreds of thousands of Arizonans, we are doing just that,” Hobbs said. “Too many Arizonans have…