Health and Health Care Utilization Effects of Medical Debt Forgiveness

UnknownOBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment

17,000

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

November 9, 2020

Primary Completion Date

November 30, 2021

Study Completion Date

December 31, 2023

Conditions
Health Care UtilizationDepressionAnxietySubjective Wellbeing
Interventions
OTHER

Medical debt forgiveness

A non-profit charity, RIP Medical Debt, bought and retired medical debt for individuals that were assigned to the treatment group.

Trial Locations (1)

90095

RECRUITING

UCLA IRB, Los Angeles

Sponsors
All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Stanford University

OTHER

collaborator

National Opinion Research Center

OTHER

collaborator

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

OTHER

collaborator

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH

lead

University of California, Los Angeles

OTHER

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