The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) finalized a rule aimed at removing an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from

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The agency estimated the rule will remove more than $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of about 15 million Americans.

Most medical debt will be scrapped from consumer credit reports under a final US rule implementing a Biden administration priority, but Republican lawmakers and the credit reporting industry will likely push to overturn the changes.

Change expected to "remove an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of about 15 million Americans."

Unpaid medical debt will no longer affect credit scores, according to a new rule from Biden administration regulators who want to mitigate the financial repercussions of those bills.

The rules ban credit agencies from including medical debts on consumers' credit reports and prohibit lenders from considering medical information in assessing borrowers.

The Biden administration finalized a new rule that will prevent Americans from the harm caused by medical debt, including being coerced by debt collectors to pay bills they do not owe.

The national move to keep unpaid medical bills off credit reports is a duplicative one for Colorado residents after the passage of a first-in-the-nation law in 2023.