state-and-regional

About 20% of North Carolina residents have medical debt that is in collections, making it the state with the fourth-highest level of unpaid medical debt.Alicia Pender lived…

Sue Berkowitz’s son was born in 1993 with a heart defect. Three years later, Berkowitz and her husband lost their health insurance when her nonprofit employer lost its…

The country’s medical debt crisis is at its most dire in several parts of Texas, which is home to three of the worst 10 U.S. counties for medical debt, according to data…

A year ago, Deborah Mais was a passenger in a morning car wreck in College Station, Texas, that left her with a traumatic brain injury and a growing pile of seemingly…