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Newsom signs California law banning medical debt from credit reports

“Nobody chooses to get sick, and then your credit gets ruined,” said one attorney with the National Consumer Law Center.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that will block health care providers, as well as any contracted collection agency, from sharing a patient’s medical debt with credit reporting agencies. (File- Getty Images)
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that will block health care providers, as well as any contracted collection agency, from sharing a patient’s medical debt with credit reporting agencies. (File- Getty Images)
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It will block health care providers, as well as any contracted collection agency, from sharing a patient’s medical debt with credit reporting agencies.

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