Unfortunately, our medical bills can be sent to collections even if we’re making payments on them. The ACA states patients of nonprofit hospitals are supposed to be given time to apply for financial assistance before “extraordinary collection measures” are taken. However, any outstanding balance is at risk of being sent to collections at any time.…

When you’re on the receiving end of phone call after phone call, when your medical bills have gone to collections, and when you’re at your wit’s end, it’s hard to know what to do.  At Crush Medical Debt we want to make it as easy as possible for you to escape the debt collectors and…

We all know that healthcare in America is outrageously expensive, and if we haven’t already been on the receiving end of a medical bill that seems enormous then it’s only a matter of time before we will be.  But how did it get like this? Why can’t we have affordable healthcare? And why are medical…

So you’ve had a medical bill sent to collections. Now what? The first thing is: don’t panic. Things can be resolved if we go about them the right way.  Just because a medical bill has been sent to collections doesn’t mean that you don’t have opportunities for debt relief or that there will be a…

When you go to see a doctor, no matter whether it’s in a private practice, a large medical clinic, or an emergency room, everything that happens in that medical practice is going to be assigned a billing code. This includes little things like listening to your heart with a stethoscope to bigger things like x-rays…