Press Coverage

Dollar For is a national nonprofit that crushes medical debt by making hospital financial assistance (charity care) known, easy, and fair. These are some of the many news stories about our work.

Press Releases

Dollar For and Esusu Partner to Help Families Build Financial Health and Overcome Medical Debt. November 18, 2025. Read now.

New Report Finds Hospitals Could Provide Charity Care to All Eligible Patients With Just a 0.7% Drop in Revenue. November 12, 2025. Read now.

Child Poverty Action Lab and Dollar For Partner to Eliminate $500,000 in Medical Debt for Dallas Families. October 21, 2025. Read now.

Dollar For Erases $100 Million in Medical Debt—All for Free. July 9, 2025. Read now.

Dollar For Urges IRS to Issue Clear Guidance on Hospital Financial Assistance Regulations. December 6, 2024. Read now.

New Study Exposes Major Inconsistencies in Hospital Financial Assistance Policies. November 5, 2024. Read now.

Dollar For and Catalina Island Health Team Up to Help Patients with Medical Bills. October 21, 2024. Read now.

Dollar For’s Research Reveals $14 Billion Gap in Hospital Charity Care
May 2, 2024. Read now.

Dollar For report finds Oregon hospitals avoiding new law to bankrupt patients. February 28, 2023. Read now.

Media Coverage

The Dose Podcast. Fighting Medical Debt? There’s an App for That. April 3, 2026. Listen/read now.

How To Money Podcast. Knowing Your Rights & Crushing Medical Bills w/ Jared Walker. March 18, 2026. Listen now.

Knox News. A surprise medical bill shows why price transparency vital. March 10, 2026. Read now.

CBS Minnesota. Struggling with medical debt? There are relief options: “There’s no shame in this”. March 9, 2026. Read now.

Stacking Benjamins Podcast. How She Eliminated a $43,000 Hospital Bill. February 25, 2026. Listen/read now.

The Lund Report. Hospitals’ push to curb charity care sparks opposition. February 24, 2026. Read now.

Street Roots. Hospitals push for a change to Oregon law that could increase medical debt among low-income patients. February 11, 2026. Read now.

KSHB 41. ‘Our million dollar baby’: Increasing medical debt risk factors worth the reward for Wichita family. February 2, 2026. Watch/read now.

Real World Health Care. What Patients Don’t Know About Hospital Financial Assistance – But Should. January 28, 2026. Read now.

Morningstar. Don’t listen to TikTok – here’s what really happens if you don’t pay your hospital bill after giving birth. January 26, 2026. Read now.

An Arm and A Leg Podcast. ‘Sh**’s wild’: Scaling up, doubling down, and buckling in. January 15, 2026. Listen now.

3 WBTV. Experts offer advice on how to negotiate medical debt with ACA subsidies set to expire. December 29, 2025. Watch/read now.

Centering Health Equity Podcast. Health Inequities and Medical Debt. December 3. 2025. Listen now.

Inspired Budget Podcast. What Hospitals Don’t Tell You About Financial Assistance with Jared Walker. November 6, 2025. Listen now.

The Bridge. Patients Deserve Prices and Protection from Medical Debt. November 6, 2025. Read now.

Reporting Texas. UT Students Help to ‘Crush’ $1.5 Million in Medical Debt. November 5, 2025. Read now.

Cheapism. How ‘Dollar For’ Can Help Reduce Your Medical Bills. November 3, 2025. Read now.

SavingAdvice. 10 Charities That Give a Fresh Start by Erasing Medical Debt. October 24, 2025. Read now.

Torrington Telegram. Nonprofit helps patients erase medical bills. October 22, 2025. Read now.

The Toolkit. Advocating for our Patients. October 16, 2025. Read now.

Growing Bolder. Growing Bolder: 95-Year-Old Actor June Squibb; Medical Debt Relief Advocate Jared Walker. October 12, 2025. Listen now.

352Today. Local Fundraisers Supporting the Fight Against Breast Cancer. October 10, 2025. Read now.

Rutland Herald. Patients deserve protection from medical debt. October 9, 2025. Read now.

Jacobin. Everything Is Becoming a Bank. October 5, 2025. Read now.

The Heartland Institute. Mandatory Charity Care Is Unconstitutional Taking of Property, Hospitals. October 3, 2025. Read now.

Money Life with Chuck Jaffe. Money Life at FinCon ’25: College savings, medical bills and Chuck’s wildest interview ever. September 11, 2025. Listen now.

WRTV Indianapolis. Dollar For helps connect Hoosiers to hospital financial assistance programs. September 11, 2025. Watch/read now.

PIRG. You found a mistake on your medical bill. Here’s what to do. September 10, 2025. Read now.

Baltimore Banner. The state tried to get hospitals to refund poor patients they overcharged. Then it gave up. September 8, 2025. Read now.

Kiplinger. How to Handle Costly Medical Bills — Smartly. August 28, 2025. Read now.

KOTA Territory. Dollar For is making a difference for people burdened by medical debt. August 22, 2025. Watch now.

Elder Law Answers. Your Unpaid Medical Debt Won’t Be Erased From Credit Reports. August 21, 2025. Read now.

Masters of Scale Strategy Session. The Ultimate Resilience Playbook. August 15, 2025. Watch now.

The Nonprofit Lab. The Fight for Medical Debt Relief at Nonprofit Hospitals with Jared Walker at Dollar For. August 14, 2025. Listen now.

Yahoo! Finance. Tips to keep medical debt out of collections. August 10, 2025. Watch now.

The Sound of the Pacific Northwest. Jared Walker: Making Hospital Financial Assistance Known, Easy, and Fair. August 8, 2025. Listen now.

WYPR/88.1 FM. ‘Dollar For’ gets people debt relief legally required by hospitals to provide. August 6, 2025. Listen now.

CalMatters. She had to fight for help with medical bills. A new California bill could make it easier. July 31, 2025. Read now.

Nonprofit Quarterly. Addressing the Medical Debt Crisis, One Bill at a Time. July 28, 2025. Read now.

Block Club Chicago. Where To Find Free, Low-Cost Health Coverage Regardless Of Immigration Status. July 23, 2025. Read now.

Time. Medical Debt Will Stay on Credit Reports After a Judge’s Ruling. How Can You Limit Its Impact on Your Credit? July 16, 2025. Read now.

Fox 12 Oregon. Portland nonprofit helps eliminate medical debt for patients across the country. July 11, 2025. Watch now.

Candid. Portland nonprofit helps eliminate medical debt for patients across the country. July 11, 2025. Read now.

Frugal Friends Podcast. How to Save Money on Medical Bills. July 10, 2025. Listen now.

Today Show. Tips to Lower Cost of Medical Bills: Insurance, Financial Aid, More. July 10, 2025. Watch now.

The Cut. What Happens If I Can’t Pay My Medical Bill?. July 3, 2025. Read now.

Everyday Health. How Do I Negotiate Healthcare Bills?. June 27, 2025. Read now.

Spotlight On Poverty & Opportunity. Dollar For Fights For Low-Income Patients to Access Charity Care. June 24, 2025. Read now.

Bridge Michigan. Michigan has tools to ease medical debt. Does it have the will?. June 23, 2025. Read now.

WLIW FM. This ‘Best-Kept Secret’ in Health Care Can Shave Down Your Medical Debt. June 12, 2025. Read now.

New York Focus. Need Help Paying Medical Bills? Here’s How Charity Care Works in New York. June 11, 2025. Read now.

Newsday. How to get help with medical bills in New York. June 6, 2025. Read now.

Illinois Answers Project. Cook County Tried to Rid People of Medical Debt, but, for Many, Help Comes Too Late. May 27, 2025. Read now.

The Nonprofit Show. From One Video to $88 Million in Debt Forgiven: What Hospitals Don’t Tell Us!. May 14, 2025. Watch now.

The Charity Charge Show. Transforming Medical Debt Relief with Jared Walker – Founder of Dollar For. May 7, 2025. Listen now.

The Chronic Illness Therapists Podcast. Eliminating Medical Debt: How Dollar For Is Helping Patients. May 3, 2025. Listen now.

Café con Pam. Secrets Hospitals Won’t Tell You: Advice from Dollar For’s Jared Walker. May 2, 2025. Watch now.

Impact Boom. Disrupting Systems And Relieving The Financial Burden of Medical Debt. May 1, 2025. Read/listen now.

CBS Detroit. A look into medical bill debt in Michigan. April 24, 2025. Read now.

CBS Baltimore. Are you paying too much for healthcare? Medical debt protections are available for Maryland patients. April 24, 2025. Read now.

CBS Texas. Are Texas nonprofit hospitals providing adequate charity care? April 24, 2025. Read now.

CBS News. More than 400 nonprofit hospitals chase down patients eligible for free care. April 24, 2025. Read now.

BiggerPockets Money Podcast. Healthcare Hacks That Could Save You Thousands. April 22, 2025. Watch now.

KPBS. California bill aims to ease medical debt by requiring hospitals to screen patients for financial aid. April 15, 2025. Read now.

Chicago Health. Undoing Debt. April 10, 2025. Read now.

Fox 26 Houston. Lawmakers considering a bill requiring hospitals to write off or reduce patient debt. March 19, 2025. Read now.

The Oregonian. Nonprofit Oregon hospitals spent less on charity care, community benefits in 2023. February 27, 2025. Read now.

KOTA Territory News. Americans face struggles with medical bills on credit report. February 12, 2025. Read now.

Associated Press. How removing unpaid medical bills from credit reports could help consumers. January 7, 2025. Read now.

NBC Boston. Medical debt being banned from credit reports | ‘A huge win for patients’. January 7, 2025. Read now.

Health Affairs. US Nonprofit Hospitals Have Widely Varying Criteria To Decide Who Qualifies For Free And Discounted Charity Care. November 5, 2024. Read now.

The News & Observer. Struggling to heal: The stories of five North Carolinians bruised by hospital debt. October 23, 2024. Read now.

The Charlotte Observer. ‘Ticking time bomb’: NC woman wanted to recover after hospital visit. Then came the bills. October 23, 2024. Read now.

Cardinal & Pine. Got medical debt in North Carolina? A new state program may help you. October 16, 2024. Read now.

WTKR. Virginia Beach man gets $3,500 worth of medical debt forgiven. October 8, 2024. Read now.

The Charlotte Observer. Inside North Carolina’s fight to make hospitals relieve billions of patient debt. September 23, 2024. Read now.

Associated Press. How to get relief from unexpectedly high medical bills. August 12, 2024. Read now.

Cascadia Daily News. Cash prices are a better deal for some medical procedures at PeaceHealth, analysis shows. August 4, 2024. Read now.

WFYI Public Media. The Checkup: Some communities buy up and forgive millions in medical debt. Is it enough? July 19, 2024. Read now.

Crain’s Chicago Business. Medical debt weighs on Chicagoans even when they have health insurance. June 10, 2024. Read now.

Crain’s Chicago Business. The crush of medical debt takes a toll on patients’ mental health. June 10, 2024. Read now.

ABC 11 NEWS. In medical debt? Holly Springs family shares how to get thousands forgiven. June 3, 2024. Read now.

Kiro 7 News. Millions of Washingtonians could qualify to have hospital bills waived, full or in part. May 22, 2024. Read now.

Clark Howard. Owe medical debt? Clark Howard says this is how you can get it down, or even forgiven. May 15, 2024. Read now.

Wall Street Journal. Hospitals Are Refusing to Do Surgeries Unless You Pay in Full First. May 9, 2024. Read now.

Fast Company. Meet the Met Gala’s Populist Cousin: The Debt Gala Raising Funds to Erase Medical Debt. May 7, 2024. Read now.

The New York Times. In Brooklyn, the Anti-Met Gala Raises Funds for Medical Debt. May 6, 2024. Read now.

Forbes. The Inconvenient Truth About Medical Debt Relief. April 15, 2024. Read now.

NPR. With pennies on the dollar and surprise notices, this nonprofit clears Washingtonians’ medical debt. March 27, 2024. Read now.

Clear Health Costs. How to turn a $6,000 hospital bill into a $466 hospital bill. March 21, 2024. Read now.

Fast Company. Americans are drowning in medical debt. Dollar For has an innovative approach to eradicate it. March 19, 2024. Read now.

USA Today. Need help with a big medical bill? How a former surgeon general is fighting a $5,000 tab. March 8, 2024. Read now.

Forbes. Fear Of Medical Debt Drives Patients To Skip Care. March 6, 2024. Read now.

Louisville Public Media. For years, a powerful Louisville hospital sued people for unpaid bills. Experts say they could have gotten free care. November 20, 2023. Read now.

Employee Benefits News. How employees can avoid medical debt: A look at hospital care charity programs July 6, 2023. Read now.

Fast Company. This tech nonprofit helps erase medical debt. May 24, 2023. Read now.

Insider. 4 surprising medical costs to watch out for, and how to avoid them. April 13, 2023. Read now.

NBC News. Dollar For Report Finds Oregon Hospitals Avoiding New Law to Bankrupt Patients. April 6, 2023. Watch now.

Telemundo Austin. Dollar For se dedica a eliminar las deudas médicas para personas de bajos recursos. April 3, 2023. Read and watch now.

NPR Life Kit. Medical bills can cause a financial crisis. Here’s how to negotiate them. March 30, 2023. Read, listen or watch now.

The Lund Report. Bill would tighten charity care rules for Oregon hospitals. March 22, 2023. Read now.

Portland Business Journal. Financial aid for Oregon hospital patients is declining, study finds. March 2, 2023. Read now.

Willamette Week. New Report Shows, Despite 2019 Law, Most Hospital Collection Practices Still Hurt Patients. March 1, 2023. Read now.

Becker’s Hospital Review. Oregon’s nonprofit hospitals are ignoring charity care law, report finds. March 1, 2023. Read now.

Scripps. This nonprofit is using medical students to help Americans deal with medical debt. December 20, 2022. Watch now.

Associated Press. How nonprofits help millions tackle their medical debt. December 21, 2022. Read now.

Chronicle of Philanthropy. Charities That Curb Medical Debt for the Needy Are Growing Fast — and Innovating. December 12, 2022. Read now.

Scripps. Struggling with medical debt? Here are some tips to help. November 22, 2022. Watch now.

Asheville Citizen-Times. Patient advocate pressure on Mission, HCA leads to posting charity care application online. November 21, 2022. Read now.

The Wall Street Journal. Hospitals Often Don’t Help Needy Patients, Even Those Who Qualify. November 17, 2022. Read now.

Wave 3. Medical debt forgiveness programs available in Louisville. October 30, 2022. Watch now.

Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN). Medical bills can be crippling. Mayo Clinic’s charity care? Arguably lacking, September 30, 2022. Read now.

Post-Bulletin (Rochester, MN). Charity care? They found it on … TikTok. September 30, 2022. Read now.

NPR. Montana health officials call for more oversight of nonprofit hospitals. September 27, 2022. Read now.

The New York Times. They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay. September 24, 2022. Read now.

Consumer Reports. How to Fight Back When Contacted by a Debt Collector for a Medical Bill. August 26, 2022. Read now.

Arm and a Leg Podcast. How to Negotiate for Lower Medical Bills. August 24, 2022. Read now.

Meta. Dollar For Community Voices Story. July 27, 2022. Read now.

The Wall Street Journal. Big Hospitals Provide Skimpy Charity Care—Despite Billions in Tax Breaks. July 25, 2022. Read now.

Asheville Citizen-Times. ‘Stupid and dangerous’: Forum scrutinizes 3 hospitals’ competition for more Buncombe beds. July 16, 2022. Read now.

NPR. 41% of adults in the U.S. have medical debt. Here are some ways to try to avoid it. June 30, 2022. Read now.

NPR. How to get rid of medical debt — or avoid it in the first place. July 1, 2022. Read now.

Turquoise Health. Why We’re Excited To Crush Medical Bills With Dollar For. April 27, 2022. Read now.

Kiplinger. What You Can Do About Medical Debt. March 14, 2022. Read now.

The Paper Gown, Zocdoc. How to Negotiate Your Medical Bills. February 23, 2022. Read now.

Kaiser Health News. How to Crush Medical Debt: 5 Tips for Using Hospital Charity Care. October 15, 2021. Read now.

Scripps. News 3 investigates a program that helps low income residents pay medical bills. August 14, 2021. Watch now.

East Lansing Info. ELi Hears from Readers about Big Medical Bills – and Investigates Help for Those Suffering. May 29, 2021. Read now.

BuzzFeed. This TikToker Just Shared A Medical Bill Secret That Feels “Illegal” But Is Actually 100% True. January 21, 2021. Read now.

The Mighty. Viral TikTok Video Highlights Hospital Medical Bill Debt Forgiveness Rule. January 19, 2021. Read now.

The Daily Dot. Viral TikTok explains how to get your medical bills canceled if you earn less than $37,470. January 18, 2021. Read now.

Willamette Week. Jared Walker Found the Secret to Forgiving Medical Debt—So He Shares It. August 30, 2020. Read now.

Time Magazine. She Owed $227,000 in Medical Bills—Even With Insurance. Here’s What it Took to Pay Them. March 21, 2019. Read now.

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