UNC Health Blue Ridge is one of about 100 hospitals in the state that has signed on to offer medical debt relief to patients.
Early this month, Gov. Roy Cooper announced approval by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to leverage the state’s Medicaid program to incentivize hospitals to relieve medical debt and to implement policies to prevent patient debt from building in the future.
The estimated total impact of the medical debt relief program is about $4 billion across the state, Cooper said…