North Carolina’s 99 hospitals have signed on to an ambitious state plan designed to relieve and prevent medical debt for thousands of lower-income residents. In exchange, hospitals will receive ...

State program erased $6.5B for 2.5M patients using Medicaid-linked hospital reforms. Relief concentrated in Mecklenburg where hospitals wiped out hundreds of millions. Federal changes may end state ...

A North Carolina program incentivizing hospitals to relieve patients’ medical debts has cut more than $6.5 billion in accrued debts for more than 2.5 million people since launching last summer. The ...

North Carolina’s medical debt relief program has surpassed its initial financial projections, relieving more than $6.5 billion in medical debt from 2.5 million residents over the past year. In July ...

IN 2023. NEW HERE AT NOON, A MEDICAL DEBT PRELIEF MILESTONE IN NORTH CAROLINA. GOVERNOR JOSH STEIN AND THE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY ANNOUNCED MORE THAN $6.5 BILLION HAS BEEN RAISED OVER THE ...

Randall Edge, 54, looks over medical bills at his home in Raleigh on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. Edge, an HVAC technician and the sole earner for a family of four, recently had about $1,800 in anesthesia ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — On Monday, Gov. Josh Stein and North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Dev Sangvai announced that more than $6.5 billion in medical debt has been forgiven in the past ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More than 2.5 million North Carolina residents are getting over $6.5 billion in medical debt eliminated through a state government effort that offered hospitals extra Medicaid ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Randall Edge, says he felt a burden lift after he received help through North Carolina’s medical debt relief program. But it hasn’t ...