RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit organization, has boomed during the pandemic, freeing patients of medical debt, thousands of people at a time. Its novel approach involves buying bundles of delinquent hospital bills — debts incurred by low-income patients — and then simply erasing the obligation to repay them. Read the Full Article.
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