State health officials have taken the first step — creating a template — toward their pledge of sharing North Carolina’s innovative medical debt relief blueprint with other states.
The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services unveiled last week its medical debt toolkit website that features its groundbreaking collaboration with the state’s 99 hospitals who volunteered to participate.
The key to the N.C. collaboration is the hospitals agreeing to eliminate $4 billion in medical debt owed by an estimated 2 million low- and middle-income households.
Hospitals would forgive more than a decade of existing medical debt for eligible North Carolinians and prevent the accumulation of new debt going…
