Your medical debt could be wiped clean thanks to newly proposed legislation by Cleveland City Council. It could mean about $200 million worth of past medical bills would be forgiven.
CLEVELAND — It proposes to use the same company that News 5 partnered with when our station forgave medical debt for Northeast Ohioans, but this time federal tax money could be going directly to hospitals.
Council Member Charles Slife agreed. “Especially in our lower income neighborhoods, in our communities of color where where medical debt is held disproportionately and at higher levels,” said Slife.You might remember the News 5 Investigative series called Diagnosis: Debt where we spent months reporting on outrageous medical bills from people in our area. Some of the bills were in the tens-of-thousands of dollars.
“It depends on how quickly the hospitals move forward with us, but a lot of them tend to move forward quickly,” said Sesso. “They are bureaucracies just like government is. So, it does take a little time.”
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