An estimated one-fifth of U.S. households have medical debt on their credit reports, a burden that makes it more expensive ...

Earlier this month, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas approved a consent judgment vacating the Consumer ...

The three national credit reporting agencies — Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion — announced last year that they would remove ...

Consumers were dealt a blow after a federal judge in Texas voided a Biden-era rule that would ban the inclusion of medical ...

A federal judge blocked a rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that would have stopped medical bills from ...

The CFPB pushed further, however, finalizing a rule in early January barring all medical debt from influencing people’s ...

A federal judge has granted trade associations and the Trump administration’s request to vacate a Consumer Financial ...

The rule would have removed more than $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of about 15 million Americans, the ...

In a win for credit bureaus and debt collectors, medical debt will be allowed to stay on your credit report after all.

A federal judge in Texas dismissed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's medical debt rule and prohibited states from ...

Finance companies can continue to make lending decisions based on information about medical bills contained in consumer credit reports, a judge rules.

On July 11, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the CFPB’s Medical Debt Rule, concluding that ...