BATON ROUGE – More than 17,000 capital area residents are beginning to receive notices that some or all of their outstanding medical debt is being erased.
The program, a partnership between the Huey and Angelina Wilson Foundation, Capital Area United Way and nonprofit Undue Medical Debt, will abolish nearly $22 million in medical debt for families in Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. James, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana parishes.
Residents whose debt has been abolished will receive a letter from Undue Medical Debt via postal mail starting this week, a news release said. According to the release, data shows that 11% of Louisianans have medical debt in a given year…