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Hospitals and other health care providers in New York would be banned from reporting medical debt to credit agencies under a bill passed this week by the state’s legislature — a measure intended to limit the damage that illness and injury can do to someone’s financial health.
If signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, the law would make New York the second state, after Colorado, to prohibit medical debt from being collected by credit reporting agencies or included in a credit report.
It would make you laugh if it wasn’t so unconscionable. Maybe it still does. It’s an angle I never considered, having never been burdened this way, but you sure know it if you have.
