What happens if you don’t pay a medical bill, now that medical debt may not hurt your credit score? 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. 01/9/2025 - 3:57 am | View Link
New CFPB Rule Keeps Medical Debt Off Credit Reports: What You Need to Know Americans will no longer have to decide what’s more important: Their health or their credit score. Finalized on January 7, a new rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) prohibits cre ... 01/9/2025 - 2:17 am | View Link
How Removing Unpaid Medical Bills From Credit Reports Could Help Consumers Lenders soon won't be able to consider unpaid medical bills as a credit history factor when they evaluate potential borrowers in the U.S. for mortgages, car loans or business loans ... 01/7/2025 - 6:39 am | View Link
Medical debt to be stripped from credit reports by federal rule. What to know With a new rule from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, you could find it easier to get a loan even with medical debt. 01/7/2025 - 6:14 am | View Link
Biden administration bans unpaid medical bills from appearing on credit reports Unpaid medical bills will no longer appear on credit reports, where they can block people from mortgages, car loans or small business loans, according to a final rule announced Tuesday by the Biden ... 01/6/2025 - 9:03 pm | View Link
Medicare coverage for durable medical equipment Each Medicare plan offers different coverage for durable medical equipment (DME). Find out which equipment and what supplies Medicare covers. 01/2/2025 - 5:59 pm | View Website
Durable Medical Equipment and Devices – An Overview | Lincare Durable medical equipment (DME) is a medically necessary, prescribed device or supplies designed for extended use in the home. DME is covered under many insurance plans, including Medicare. Choosing the right DME is the key to maintaining a higher quality of life when faced with a medical condition. 01/2/2025 - 8:05 am | View Website
Durable Medical Equipment (DME) Coverage | Aetna Medicare Do you need durable medical equipment (DME)? Medicare covers DME like wheelchairs, hospital beds, pumps and more. Read on to learn about the types of DME that are covered and how to find what you need. 01/2/2025 - 1:10 am | View Website
Medicare Coverage of Durable Medical Equipment What’s Durable Medical Equipment (DME)? This booklet explains Original Medicare coverage of DME and what you might need to pay. DME is reusable medical equipment. It includes items like: Words in blue are defined on pages 17–18. It’s important to know what Medicare covers and what you may need to pay. 01/2/2025 - 12:05 am | View Website
Durable Medical Equipment Coverage Do you have durable medical equipment (DME) coverage? Find list of medical items Medicare pays costs for, like beds, oxygen, pumps, canes, more. 01/1/2025 - 4:03 am | View Website
Jimmy Carter, the 39th U. S. President, was honored with a state funeral Thursday at the Washington National Cathedral before a private family service in his tiny Georgia hometown of Plains.
Here are some of the images from the day’s proceedings:
From L to R, first row, US President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Secod Gentleman Doug Emhoff, second row, former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President George W.
Have you heard about the free-range, wild monkeys of Dania Beach? Growing up in Fort Lauderdale, I was captivated by the colony of vervet monkeys living near the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. These fascinating creatures, now numbering around 40, are descendants of escapees from the Dania Chimpanzee Farm breeding facility.
By JILL COLVIN and ROB GILLIES, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump ran on a return to his “America First” foreign policy platform. The U. S., he said, could no longer afford to be the world’s policeman. On his watch, he pledged, there would be no new wars.
But since winning a second term, the president-elect has been embracing a new imperialist agenda, threatening to seize the Panama Canal and Greenland — perhaps by military force — and saying he will use economic coercion to pressure Canada to become the nation’s 51st state.
“Canada and the United States, that would really be something.
Former U. S. President Jimmy Carter will be honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital.
Thursday’s events conclude six days of national funeral rites for the 39th president who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100.
All of Carter’s living successors are expected to attend the Washington funeral, including President-elect Donald Trump, who paid his respects before Carter’s casket Wednesday in the Capitol Rotunda.
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half the people in the United States use for entertainment and information.
TikTok says it plans to shut down the social media site in the U.
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are urging a federal appeals panel to let his scheduled guilty plea Friday in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, go forward in a plea agreement that would spare him and two co-defendants the risk of the death penalty in al-Qaida’s notorious Sept.