County announces results of medical debt elimination program
A combined $2.486 million in medical debt held by residents of Kalamazoo County has been eliminated in a pennies-on-the-dollar program partially funded by the county government and state of Michigan.
In 2024, the county allocated $100,000 to the program, which was run by Undue Medical Debt, a nonprofit that buys medical debt from healthcare and debt collections agencies. The county used funds from the American Rescue Plan Act, the Covid-19 era local support funds.
Undue Medical Debt says the average recipient gets about $1100 in debt erased by the program…