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