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Undue Medical Debt, formerly RIP Medical Debt, [1] is a Long Island City–based 501(c)(3) charity [2] focused on the elimination of personal medical debt. [3] Founded in 2014 by former debt collection executives Jerry Ashton and Craig Antico, [4] the charity purchases portfolios of income-qualifying medical debt from debt collectors and healthcare providers, and then relieves the debt. [5]
A 2023 survey by RIP found more than 4 in 10 adults said they delayed medical care because they did not want to go further into debt. Most medical debt is sold to collectors for pennies on the dollar.
RIP Medical Debt erases debt purchased from hospitals, other health care providers and the secondary debt market. It buys millions of dollars of debt in bundles for what it says is a fraction of ...
They're former medical debt collectors with. NEW YORK — Hospital stays, doctor visits, procedures, tests. It all adds up, and not even insurance can protect some from falling into debt. Craig ...
Casey McIntyre died on Nov. 12 from ovarian cancer at the age of 38. Her dying wish was to help people pay off their medical debt.
RIP Medical Debt buys debt at about 1% of its actual dollar value, so with the allocated $1.5 million, the city of Cincinnati could relieve up to $150 million in crushing medical debt for ...
Governments are working to relieve medical debt. As part of the American Rescue Plan, the White House intends to pay off $7 billion in medical debt by the end of 2026.
To date, RIP Medical Debt has relieved 415,104 Ohioans of $370,609,731 in medical debt, said spokesman Daniel Lempert. "The impact is multidimensional," he said. "Medical debts are burdening ...