Health and Health Care Utilization Effects of Medical Debt Forgiveness
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Brief summary
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The goal of this study is to estimate the direct, causal impact of medical debt on health care utilization, mental health, and wellbeing of patients. The investigators will conduct a survey to measure the impact of the debt forgiveness on health care use, mental health, and wellbeing. The survey will be administered to approximately 17,000 subjects of a recent medical financial intervention. In that prior intervention, a non-profit charity, RIP Medical Debt, purchased and abolished medical debt for a randomly selected about 6,000 (out of the 17,000) individuals. In this current protocol, the investigators will administer the survey, and will compare surveyed outcomes of subjects who received and did not receive the intervention.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04835012
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- Not listed
- Enrollment
- 15,008 participants
Conditions and interventions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Nov 8, 2020
- Primary completion
- Dec 30, 2021
- Completion
- Dec 30, 2021
- Last update posted
- Apr 29, 2026
2020 – 2021
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wesley Yin | Los Angeles | California | 90095 | — |
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- Last update posted Apr 29, 2026 · Synced Sep 8, 2026
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