By Alan Gionet | CBS Colorado
A move Tuesday, in the last weeks of the Biden Administration means credit reporting agencies like TransUnion, Equifax and Experian will no longer be able to include unpaid medical bills on credit reports. At least for now.
The move is a duplicative one for Colorado residents after the passage of a first-in-the-nation law in 2023 barring the inclusion of medical debt on credit reports.
“I’m just starting to feel that like, ‘wow, this is like, this is pretty amazing,'” said Western Slope resident Misty Castaneda. “I got to be part of something to help change a massive amount of everybody’s lives.”