An investigative series from Tradeoffs and KFF Health News about how hospitals can protect their patients from the life-altering harms of medical debt.
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TRADEOFFS
Melanie Evans
Ryan Levi
Dan Gorenstein
Jo Craven McGinty
Andrew Parrella
Cedric Wilson
Kathryn Dugal
Haley Lerner
Adam Schweigert
Colleen Scheck
Leslie Walker
Kate Sepe
KFF HEALTH NEWS
Noam N. Levey
Kelly Johnson
Taunya English
Mary-Ellen Deily
Ngoc Nguyen
Oona Zenda
Lydia Zuraw
Kathleen Hayden
Terry Byrne
Lynne Shallcross
Hannah Norman
Chaseedaw Giles
Betul Tuncer
Tradeoffs’ reporting for this series was supported, in part, by the California Health Care Foundation, the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, and the Solutions Journalism Network.