Northview Church in Carmel worked with RIP Medical Debt, which buys medical bills for pennies on the dollar, and used $7.8 million to help pay off health care bills for people in 10 communities, according to WLKY-TV.
A central Indiana church paid off $7.8 million in medical debt for about 5,940 families. Northview Church said in a news release that the debts were paid for people living in the 10 communities served by the nondenominational Christian church. https://t.co/CVyA7FujJD pic.twitter.com/y81s31J9BI
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The church has been working on the debt settlement for months.
It first raised $20,000 with the initial goal of paying off $2 million in debt, but other religious organizations got involved and helped them raise much more, WTHR-TV reported.
In some cases the church said it was able to erase medical bills for entire cities in Indiana.
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