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Though NM outlawed the practice, hospitals are still suing folks with low incomes to collect debt

By Source NM  
   December 01, 2022

Even after New Mexico made it illegal for hospitals to send collectors after people with low incomes who owe them money or to sue patients to collect medical debt, a review of court records finds that hospitals or their collection agencies have filed more than 700 lawsuits trying to do exactly that.

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