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August 14, 2024
North Carolina Hospitals Sign On to Relieve Medical Debt
Summary
Governor Roy Cooper and Health and Human Services Secretary Kody H. Kinsley announced that all 99 eligible hospitals in North Carolina have joined a state program aimed at relieving medical debt for nearly 2 million residents, with an anticipated impact of approximately $4 billion. The initiative, leveraging the Healthcare Access and Stabilization Program (HASP), will implement policies to alleviate existing debts and prevent future accruals, particularly benefiting low- and middle-income individuals. Participating hospitals will focus on automatic charity care qualification for certain public benefits enrollees and enforce debt forgiveness for Medicaid recipients by mid-2025, along with other measures to curtail aggressive debt collection practices.
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