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Code · Vermont · Title 18 — Health · Chapter 221

§ 9485.

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§ 9485. Prohibition on sale or reporting of medical debt
(a)(1) No large health care facility shall sell its medical debt except as provided in subdivision
(2)of this subsection.
(2)A large health care facility may sell or otherwise transfer its medical debt to an organization that is exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code for the specific purpose of the tax-exempt organization abolishing the medical debt of one or more patients by cancellation of the indebtedness.
(b)No large health care facility or medical debt collector shall report or otherwise furnish any portion of a medical debt to a credit reporting agency. (Added 2021, No. 119 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. July 1, 2022; amended 2025, No. 21, § 7, eff. July 1, 2025.)
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