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. 2022 May 20;3(5):e221031.
doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2022.1031. eCollection 2022 May.

Trends in Medical Debt During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Benedict Guttman-Kenney  1 , Raymond Kluender  2 , Neale Mahoney  3   4 , Francis Wong  4 , Xuyang Xia  5 , Wesley Yin  4   6
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Trends in Medical Debt During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Benedict Guttman-Kenney et al. JAMA Health Forum. .

Abstract

This cross-sectional study evaluates the association between the COVID-19 pandemic and reported new medical debt from 2018 to 2021 across the US.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Quarterly Flow of Medical Debt in Collections and COVID-19 Infection Rate
Mean quarterly flow of debt was the amount of new debt listed on credit reports in the past 3 months, averaged over all individuals with a credit report. COVID-19 infection rate was the rolling 7-day mean per 100 000 people.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Quarter 3 Flow of Medical Debt by Zip Code Income Quintile
Dots indicate means; horizontal lines, medians; boxes, IQRs; whiskers, range (10th-90th percentile) for mean zip code–level quarter 3 debt flow.
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