Appearing in NPR and KFF Health News on Dec. 3, 2024, Noam Levey discusses states approach to medical debt protections with NCLC Senior Attorney April Kuehnhoff.
“There are a lot of different levers that states have to take on medical debt,” said April Kuehnhoff, a senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, which has helped lead national efforts to expand debt protections for patients.
April Kuehnhoff, senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center.
Kuehnhoff said she expects more states to crack down on medical credit card providers and other companies that lend money to patients to pay off medical bills, sometimes at double-digit interest rates.
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