North Carolina hospital company forgives debts of 11,500 people after NBC News report

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14 million Americans owe at least $1,000 in medical debt, with South Dakota, Mississippi and North Carolina as the top three states. Collectively, Americans owe $220 billion in medical debt, turning medical emergencies into financial crises across the country. NBC News' Christine Romans has a closer look in our series, 'The Cost of Living.

Less than a week after NBC News detailed how the hospital system Atrium Health of North Carolina aggressively pursued former patients’ medical debts, placing liens on their homes to collect on hospital bills, the nonprofit company announced it would cancel those obligations and forgive the unpaid debts associated with them.

” Americans owe some $220 billion in medical debt, according to KFF, a nonprofit health policy research, polling and news organization. The top three states for medical debt are South Dakota, where 18% of the population is affected, followed by Mississippi at 15% and Belk’s home state of North Carolina at 13%, KFF says.

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