Trends in Medical Debt During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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

Authors

Benedict Guttman-Kenney¹, Raymond Kluender², Neale Mahoney^{3

4}, Francis Wong⁴, Xuyang Xia⁵, Wesley Yin^{4

6}

Affiliations

¹ University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois.
² Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.
³ Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
⁴ National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
⁵ Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
⁶ Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles.

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.

Copyright 2022 Guttman-Kenney B et al. JAMA Health Forum.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / epidemiology
Cross-Sectional Studies
Humans
Pandemics

Grants and funding

T32 AG000186/AG/NIA NIH HHS/United States