Holding Hospitals to Their Big Charity Care Promise

Last year, Amber Holloway got an unusual letter with a blue “UNDUE” stamp in the corner. It said she no longer had to pay eight old hospital bills.

“I thought it was fake,” she said. “I was glad, but I didn’t really believe it.”

But on a recent Thursday evening, Holloway attended a community listening session at Greensboro’s Peeler Community Recreation Center. Community advocates told her about North Carolina’s new debt mitigation policy that has wiped out more than $6.5 billion dollars in medical debt for people across the state…

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