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Chopra says CFPB finalizing medical debt rule; agency issues advisory opinion on debt collector practices

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The CFPB is in the process of completing its final rule intended to ban the inclusion of medical debts in credit reports, bureau Director Rohit Chopra said at a White House session intended to focus on practices in the...more

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CFPB Intensifies Scrutiny on Medical Debt Collection Practices

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On October 1, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) issued an advisory opinion aimed at debt collectors and emphasizing their obligations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and Regulation...more

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New Jersey Legislature Passes Medical Debt Relief Act

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Both houses of the New Jersey Legislature recently passed Assembly Bill No. 3861 (AB 3861), known as the Louisa Carman Medical Debt Relief Act. The legislation’s stated aims are to prevent undue financial hardship and protect...more

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CFPB issues proposal to prohibit use of medical debt information in credit decisions

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The steady drumbeat of steps during Rohit Chopra’s tenure as CFPB Director to call into question the reliability and predictability of medical debt information in credit underwriting reached a crescendo last week with the...more

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CFPB bans medical debt in credit reporting decisions

On June 11, the CFPB released a proposed rule to ban obtaining or using medical information for credit eligibility determinations. Specifically, the proposed rule would amend the FCRA to remove the medical financial...more

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CFPB Proposes Rule Removing Medical Bills From Credit Reports

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On June 11, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a proposed rule that would generally prohibit lenders from considering medical debt information when determining a consumer’s eligibility for credit,...more

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CFPB Proposed Rule Banning Reporting of Medical Debt

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On June 11, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released a proposed rule amending Regulation V, which implements the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), concerning medical debt. The proposed rule would...more

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CFPB Releases Proposal to Remove Medical Debt from Credit Reports

On June 11, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a rule that would introduce sweeping changes to the process of medical debt credit reporting and the use of information related to the nonpayment of...more

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Illinois Passes Legislation to Ban Reporting of Medical Debt

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On May 16, the Illinois legislature passed Senate Bill (SB) 2933. The bill amends the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act making it unlawful for a consumer reporting agency (CRA) to create a consumer...more

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CFPB issues letters in support of Connecticut and California bills on medical debt reporting; Connecticut bill enacted

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued two letters in support of state efforts to prohibit medical debt reporting. In March 2024, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra sent a letter to the California State Senate in...more

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CFPB Issues Findings on Recent Changes in Medical Collections on Consumer Reports

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Earlier this week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released its second report detailing changes in the credit reporting of medical debts made by the three national consumer reporting agencies (CRAs)...more

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CFPB Backs Connecticut and California Bills to Prohibit Medical Debt Reporting

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Recently, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) submitted letters to senators in Connecticut and California supporting their proposals to prohibit medical debt reporting....more

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CO and NY enact laws to prevent reporting of medical debt to credit bureaus

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Colorado and New York are not waiting for the Fair Credit Reporting Act rulemaking to eliminate creditor use of medical debt announced by the CFPB in September 2023. As we previously blogged, in the past two years, Equifax,...more

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NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection Proposes Amendments to Debt Collection Rules

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New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (NYC DCWP) recently released a notice of proposed amendments to its debt collection rules. The proposed amendments are detailed, lengthy, and include expanded...more

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CFPB Launches FCRA Rulemaking to Eliminate Creditor Use of Medical Debt

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On September 21, 2023, with limited time to digest the comments received by September 11, 2023 from the request for information regarding medical payment products, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) started the...more

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Ninth Circuit affirms district court’s denial of preliminary injunction to block enforcement of Nevada medical debt collection law

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in a 2-1 decision, recently affirmed the district court’s decision denying the plaintiffs’ motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to block...more

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Colorado establishes medical debt collection requirements

On May 4, the Colorado governor signed SB 23-093 to cap the interest rate on medical debt at three percent per year. The Act outlines numerous provisions, including that entities collecting on a medical debt must provide a...more

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CFPB finds 33 percent decline in collections tradelines on credit reports

On February 14, the CFPB released a report examining debt collection credit reporting trends from 2018 to 2022. The Bureau’s report, Market Snapshot: An Update on Third-Party Debt Collections Tradelines Reporting, is based on...more

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CFPB looks at connection between financial assistance for medical care and medical collections

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In a blog post published last week, the CFPB looked at the connection between eligibility for financial assistance under policies mandated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and medical collections.  The ACA requires nonprofit...more

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Significant Changes to Medical Collection Debt Reporting: How Might it Affect Business?

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In March of this year, the three major nationwide credit reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) announced there would be substantial changes to medical collection debt reporting coming this summer in an effort...more

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CFPB Urges States to Regulate Consumer Reporting, Weighing in on Limited FCRA Preemption of State Law

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On June 28, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an interpretive rule, encouraging states to enact more laws regulating consumer reporting, arguing that states’ powers are only constrained in limited ways by...more

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Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion announce changes in medical debt reporting

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Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion have announced that effective July 1, 2022, they will no longer include medical debt that was paid after it was sent to collections on consumer credit reports.  In addition, the time period...more

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CFPB issues report on tradeline reporting by third-party debt collectors

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The CFPB has issued a new report on tradelines reported by third-party debt collectors as reflected on credit reports compiled by nationwide consumer reporting agencies.  The third-party collector tradelines consist of those...more

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