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Policy change is slow. Terri Logan says no one mentioned charity care or financial assistance programs to her when she gave birth. Numerous factors contribute to medical debt, he says, and many are difficult to address: rising hospital and drug prices, high out-of-pocket costs, less generous insurance coverage, and widening racial inequalities in medical debt.
It undermines the point of care in the first place, he says: "There's pressure and despair. "A lot of damage will have been done by the time they come in to relieve that debt, " says Mark Rukavina, a program director for Community Catalyst, a consumer advocacy group. Sesso emphasizes that RIP's growing business is nothing to celebrate. "We wanted to eliminate at least one stressor of avoidance to get people in the doors to get the care that they need, " says Dawn Casavant, chief of philanthropy at Heywood. Soon after giving birth to a daughter two months premature, Terri Logan received a bill from the hospital. The nonprofit has boomed during the pandemic, freeing patients of medical debt, thousands of people at a time. "Every day, I'm thinking about what I owe, how I'm going to get out of this... especially with the money coming in just not being enough. Some hospitals say they want to alleviate that destructive cycle for their patients. Linkle uses her body to pay her debt to god. That money enabled RIP to hire staff and develop software to comb through databases and identify targeted debt faster. "The weight of all of that medical debt — oh man, it was tough, " Logan says. Then a few months ago — nearly 13 years after her daughter's birth and many anxiety attacks later — Logan received some bright yellow envelopes in the mail. Terri Logan (right) practices music with her daughter, Amari Johnson (left), at their home in Spartanburg, S. C. When Logan's daughter was born premature, the medical bills started pouring in and stayed with her for years. New regulations allow RIP to buy loans directly from hospitals, instead of just on the secondary market, expanding its access to the debt.
Sesso said that with inflation and job losses stressing more families, the group now buys delinquent debt for those who make as much as four times the federal poverty level, up from twice the poverty level. They are billed full freight and then hounded by collection agencies when they don't pay. They were from a nonprofit group telling her it had bought and then forgiven all those past medical bills. "As a bill collector collecting millions of dollars in medical-associated bills in my career, now all of a sudden I'm reformed: I'm a predatory giver, " Ashton said in a video by Freethink, a new media journalism site. Juan Diego Reyes for KHN and NPR. Depending on the hospital, these programs cut costs for patients who earn as much as two to three times the federal poverty level. Linkle uses her body to pay her debt to someone. "Hospitals shouldn't have to be paid, " he says. RIP CEO Sesso says the group is advising hospitals on how to improve their internal financial systems so they better screen patients eligible for charity care — in essence, preventing people from incurring debt in the first place. She recoiled from the string of numbers separated by commas. Logan's newfound freedom from medical debt is reviving a long-dormant dream to sing on stage.
"Basically: Don't reward bad behavior. "We prefer the hospitals reduce the need for our work at the back end, " she says. RIP buys the debts just like any other collection company would — except instead of trying to profit, they send out notices to consumers saying that their debt has been cleared. It's a model developed by two former debt collectors, Craig Antico and Jerry Ashton, who built their careers chasing down patients who couldn't afford their bills.
6 million people of debt. Sesso says the group is constantly looking for new debt to buy from hospitals: "Call us! Plus, she says, "it's likely that that debt would not have been collected anyway. One criticism of RIP's approach has been that it isn't preventive; the group swoops in after what can be years of financial stress and wrecked credit scores that have damaged patients' chances of renting apartments or securing car loans. Nor did Logan realize help existed for people like her, people with jobs and health insurance but who earn just enough money not to qualify for support like food stamps. After helping Occupy Wall Street activists buy debt for a few years, Antico and Ashton launched RIP Medical Debt in 2014. Most hospitals in the country are nonprofit and in exchange for that tax status are required to offer community benefit programs, including what's often called "charity care. " Logan, who was a high school math teacher in Georgia, shoved it aside and ignored subsequent bills. Its novel approach involves buying bundles of delinquent hospital bills — debts incurred by low-income patients like Logan — and then simply erasing the obligation to repay them. This time, it was a very different kind of surprise: "Wait, what?
Then, a few months ago, she discovered a nonprofit had paid off her debt. Yet RIP is expanding the pool of those eligible for relief. The group says retiring $100 in debt costs an average of $1. Sesso says it just depends on which hospitals' debts are available for purchase. What triggered the change of heart for Ashton was meeting activists from the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 who talked to him about how to help relieve Americans' debt burden. Heywood Healthcare system in Massachusetts donated $800, 000 of medical debt to RIP in January, essentially turning over control over that debt, in part because patients with outstanding bills were avoiding treatment. "So nobody can come to us, raise their hand, and say, 'I'd like you to relieve my debt, '" she says. RIP Medical Debt does. For Terri Logan, the former math teacher, her outstanding medical bills added to a host of other pressures in her life, which then turned into debilitating anxiety and depression. The medical debt that followed Logan for so many years darkened her spirits. She was a single mom who knew she had no way to pay. Recently, RIP started trying to change that, too. A surge in recent donations — from college students to philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, who gave $50 million in late 2020 — is fueling RIP's expansion. It means that millions of people have fallen victim to a U. S. insurance and health care system that's simply too expensive and too complex for most people to navigate.
But many eligible patients never find out about charity care — or aren't told. Rukavina says state laws should force hospitals to make better use of their financial assistance programs to help patients. "I would say hospitals are open to feedback, but they also are a little bit blind to just how poorly some of their financial assistance approaches are working out. 7 billion in unpaid debt and relieved 3. However, consumers often take out second mortgages or credit cards to pay for medical services. And about 1 in 5 with any amount of debt say they don't expect to ever pay it off. "I don't know; I just lost my mojo, " she says.