Doctors Say They’ve Apprehensively Taken On Job Of Preventing Patients’ Medical Debt

New toolkit helps doctors address patients’ financial needs – a role doctors say they feel thrust into amid worsening crisis

The medical debt advocacy organization Undue Medical Debt released a toolkit to help doctors address patients’ financial needs – a role doctors said they did not train or want, but feel thrust into amid what they see as a worsening crisis.

More than 90% of Americans carry some form of health insurance. Still, an estimated 41% of US adults, or more than 100 million people, also have medical debt – whether held on a credit card, paid off to a provider over time, borrowed from a family member or with a collections agency, surveys show.