OREM, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nomi Health, the direct healthcare company rewiring how healthcare is paid for and delivered, is alerting Utah residents to check the mail for a yellow envelope coming directly from RIP Medical Debt via U.S. Postal mail. The effort is the result of a $2 million donation from Nomi Health, to abolish more than $225 million in medical debt. This is RIP Medical Debt's largest corporate contribution to date.
Beginning today, more than 74,000 Utahans selected by RIP Medical Debt will receive letters absolving them from their medical debt loads. Individuals who meet RIP’s criteria of living at two times or below the poverty line, or those whose debts are 5 percent or more of their annual income, will receive relief from the 8-year-old organization.
Currently, the top five Utah counties with residents benefitting from this donation are:
- Salt Lake County = 10,567 residents will receive relief, totaling more than $42 million of medical debt
- Davis County = 4,462 residents will receive relief, totaling nearly $7 million of medical debt
- Weber County = 2,336 residents will receive relief, totaling $3.5 million of medical debt
- Utah County = 978 residents will receive relief, totaling over $1.6 million of medical debt
- Tooele County = 627 residents will receive relief, totaling more than $1.1 million of medical debt
In addition more than 53,000 additional Utah residents, across 24 other counties will also receive debt relief.
“Since the inception of Nomi Health, we are focused on helping communities in need of affordable, direct healthcare solutions,” said Mark Newman, Nomi Health CEO and Co-Founder. “Making this contribution to RIP Medical Debt in our home state will make a significant and positive impact for over 74,000 Utahans across the state, relieving them of the financial, mental and emotional stress of their legacy medical debt.”
In addition to Utah, this record-breaking donation relieves more than 176,000 Americans across Florida, Colorado and Nebraska of their medical debt. The money owed had accumulated from surprise billing and high healthcare costs before the pandemic—and for some has led to wage garnishment, liens, and other burdensome debt collection tactics.
Today, nearly one fifth of all Americans struggle to afford healthcare services, according to a recent Gallup study. Additionally, recent JAMA research found that unpaid medical bills are the largest source of debt with collection agencies for Americans.
About Nomi Health
Nomi Health is a direct healthcare company focused on making healthcare actually work for those who buy it for their states, organizations and constituents. We’re a team of over 2,000--each actively working to connect buyers and healthcare providers directly to lower costs, deliver care solutions to all and rewire the health system to run in real time. From the front lines of COVID testing and vaccination serving over 10 million Americans and more than 40,000 patients each day, to building new ecosystems of buyers such as States and Counties without middlemen, Nomi Health delivers a solution for our nation’s leaders seeking to widen access to care while lowering cost of care. Visit us @NomiHealth and www.nomihealth.com.
About RIP Medical Debt
Since being founded in 2014 by two former debt collectors, RIP Medical Debt has acquired — and abolished — more than $5 billion of burdensome medical debt, helping over 2.8 million families and addressing a major social determinant of health. RIP partners with individuals, faith-based organizations, foundations, and corporations and empowers donors by converting every dollar contributed into $100 of medical debt relief. RIP partners with hospitals and health systems and physician groups to acquire medical debt for abolishment. RIP rose to national prominence on an episode of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” with John Oliver in which RIP facilitated the abolishment of $15M in medical debt. In December of 2020, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $50 million to RIP to help uplift struggling communities. To learn more, visit www.RIPMedicalDebt.org
