Reporting patient medical debt by creditor, collector, consumer reporting agency, prohibited.

N.J.S.A. 56:11-58, under Chapter 11.

N.J.S.A. 56:11-58

56:11-58 Reporting patient medical debt by creditor, collector, consumer reporting agency, prohibited.

3. a. A medical creditor or medical debt collector shall not report a patient's medical debt to any consumer reporting agency for health care services performed on and after the effective date of P.L.2024, c.48 (C.56:11-56 et seq.). b. A consumer reporting agency shall not make any consumer report containing a patient's paid medical debt or a medical debt of less than $500 regardless of the date it was incurred. L.2024, c.48, s.3.