If You Have Medical Debt, Your Credit Score Is About to Get Better

For many, debt or damaged credit is largely due to high medical bills or gaps between what insurance will cover and what the doctor wants to be paid.

January 13, 2015 · 1 min · 60 words · Frank Smith

One notable tweak to FICO 9 is the way it views medical debt that has gone into collections.

It will not penalize that as severely as it did prior, Sprauve says.

Hit the link below to read more about the news, and some of the differences between bureau scores.

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