Key Points ・A Texas federal judge has blocked the CFPB's January 2025 rule that banned the inclusion of medical debt in credit reports. ・The ruling reverses protections for up to 15 million Americans ...

CFPB research has indicated that medical debt on credit reports is “a poor predictor” of whether a person will repay a loan, ...

Unpaid medical bills are back on the table, which could mean lower credit scores for millions. A federal judge in Texas has ...

In a win for credit bureaus and debt collectors, medical debt will be allowed to stay on your credit report after all. Last ...

Undue Medical Debt will purchase bundled medical debt portfolios from hospitals and commercial debt buyers to then abolish ...

An estimated one-fifth of U.S. households have medical debt on their credit reports, a burden that makes it more expensive ...

A federal judge blocked a rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have stopped medical bills from ...

The judge's decision vacated a rule imposed by the Biden administration earlier this year to keep medical debt from affecting ...

According to the Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker, nearly 20 million adults in the U.S. owe medical debt, with a total ...

A federal judge vacated a Biden-era rule that would've banned medical debt on credit reports — but protections remain under New York law — with a few caveats.

The three national credit reporting agencies — Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion — announced last year that they would remove medical collections under $500 from U.S. consumer credit reports. The CFPB ...