CHICAGO, Sept. 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy in the U.S. To help consumers faced with mounting medical bills avoid bankruptcy, TransUnion Healthcare announced today that it is supporting the efforts of RIP Medical Debt, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit located in metropolitan New York, but working nationally. RIP, founded in 2014, has a single mission to help relieve deserving Americans and veterans of medical expenses they are unable to pay.
Our nonprofit uses donor funds to locate and then purchase unpaid and unpayable medical debt, said Craig Antico, CEO and co-founder of RIP Medical Debt. With TransUnions support, we can further address the difficult problem of identifying those individuals …
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