{"id":2279,"date":"2021-07-07T22:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T22:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2021-07-07T22:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T22:25:14","slug":"charity-plans-to-buy-debt-owed-to-hospital-by-82000-low-income-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/07\/07\/charity-plans-to-buy-debt-owed-to-hospital-by-82000-low-income-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity Plans to Buy Debt Owed to Hospital by 82,000 Low-Income Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RIP Medical Debt is partnering with Ballad Health to pay off $278 million of pending hospital bills. In the process, the New York-based charity will free approximately 82,000 people from debt they owe to hospitals.<\/p>\n

According to the Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/a>, many who owed money to Ballad Health — which operates hospitals in Virginia and Tennessee — qualified for free care under its policy, but didn\u2019t apply for it.<\/p>\n

In addition to its partnership with Ballad, RIP Medical Debt hopes to reach deals with other medical facilities, helping remove the burden of medical bills for low-income families.<\/p>\n

Since the founding of RIP Medical Debt in 2014, it\u2019s relieved more than $4.5 billion in outstanding bills. According to their website, their efforts have helped over 2.6 million families so far.<\/p>\n

RIP Medical Debt executive director Allison Sesso told ABC News<\/strong><\/a> the charity does not individually select which patients get their debt forgiven. \u201cIt\u2019s blind,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

However, to qualify, patients must not earn above 200% of the poverty line, or about $43,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  RIP Medical Debt is partnering with Ballad Health to pay off $278 million of pending hospital bills. In the process, the New York-based charity will free approximately 82,000 people from debt they owe to hospitals. According to the Wall Street Journal, many who owed money to Ballad Health — which operates hospitals in Virginia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}