{"id":25326,"date":"2025-12-23T11:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25326"},"modified":"2025-12-23T11:31:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:31:35","slug":"arizona-erases-642m-in-medical-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25326","title":{"rendered":"Arizona erases $642M in medical debt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Kristin Kuchno for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 141,000 Arizona residents will receive letters this week notifying them that their medical debt has been relieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs\u2019 administration and nonprofit Undue Medical Debt have eliminated $642 million in medical debt for 485,000 Arizonans, according to a Dec. 22 news release from the governor\u2019s office. The effort is part of an initiative to wipe out up to $2 billion in medical debt for 1 million residents.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/arizona-erases-642m-in-medical-debt\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/arizona-erases-642m-in-medical-debt\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-7924\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg 2121w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Kristin Kuchno for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) More than 141,000 Arizona residents will receive letters this week notifying them that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,56],"tags":[385,238,216,1988],"class_list":["post-25326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-medical-debt","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medical-debt","tag-undue-medical-debt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25327,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25326\/revisions\/25327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}