IDAHO PRESS — This afternoon’s House Business Committee hearing on HB 515, eastern Idaho businessman Frank VanderSloot’s bill to restrict medical debt collectors in Idaho, ran for more than five hours and into the evening, before the bill finally was approved with just two “no” votes. Post Register reporter Nathan Brown has a full story […]
POST REGISTER — A bill to put some limits on medical debt collection in Idaho is headed to the House floor. After almost five hours of often passionate, occasionally angry testimony both from people in the medical and debt collection industries and from people from eastern Idaho with personal stories about how they had been […]
IDAHO STATESMAN — Legislation intended to create transparency in medical bills sent to patients and to rein in predatory medical debt collectors advanced to the Idaho House on Wednesday. The House Business Committee approved the bill 15-2 after a five-hour, emotional hearing where lawmakers shared personal stories. The measure would require doctors and medical facilities […]
LAW 360 — The knock came just four days after Steven Krueger got out of the hospital. He was recovering from back surgery in his home in Idaho Falls when sheriff’s deputies arrived with a warrant to bring him to the courthouse.Steve was in a back brace and wasn’t supposed to travel, except to the […]
POST REGISTER — Jerry: Do you know what’s the number one cause of bankruptcy nationwide? Carrie: Credit cards? Jerry: Nope. It’s medical debt, according to a 2019 Harvard University study. It causes over 62 percent of all bankruptcies. Carrie: Medical debt causes enormous misery. But what offends me are the unscrupulous medical debt collection firms […]
POST REGISTER — Friday was the deadline for non-privileged, in legislative parlance, committees to introduce bills in the House, so there was a flurry of bill introductions late in the week, including some from local lawmakers or relevant to eastern Idaho issues. [One], which is being sponsored by Assistant Majority Leader Jason Monks, R-Nampa, would […]
POST REGISTER — A bill to put some limits on medical debt collection has been introduced into the Idaho Legislature. Sponsored by House Assistant Majority Leader Jason Monks, R-Nampa, it would require medical providers to provide patients with a statement listing all services provided and the providers who rendered them, give patients some time before a […]
IDAHO COUNTY FREE PRESS — Good news for constituents concerned with medical debt, Crabtree said a bill has been put forth that would require doctors and hospitals to get their bills to insurance companies within a month, and to make them clear. Getting behind the effort, he said, is Idaho billionaire, Frank VanderSloot. Part of […]
CHANNEL 6 KPVI — Going into week five of the Idaho legislative session at the state capitol in Boise. Former State Representative Dustin Manwaring says one of the hot topics at legislative session right now is the proposed legislation by local business man and founder of Melaleuca, Frank Vandersloot. Vandersloot is working with leaders in […]
THE LEWISTON TRIBUNE — Idaho Billionaire Frank VanderSloot is lobbying legislators to back legislation requiring doctors and medical facilities to make their patient bills timely and clear — and limit how much attorneys can get paid for helping collect medical debt under certain circumstances. Read the full story on The Lewiston Tribune