INDIANAPOLIS Hospital financial assistance, also known as Charity Care, is available in Indiana.

The issue is that many Hoosiers are unaware.

Earlier this week, WRTV introduced you to a family in Fountain Square thats dealing with over $100,000 in medical debt.

After that story aired, nonprofit Dollar For reached out to us to say that they work to reduce or erase patients medical bills.

We help make the bills go away," Policy Director Eli Rushbanks said.

Dollar For has helped erase over $1.5 million in medical bills in Indianapolis alone.

Every nonprofit hospital in the country has to have a policy that gives people breaks on their out-of-pocket medical bills, as one of the things they have to do to be a 501c3 tax exempt entity," Rushbanks said.

A 2023 survey found that only 29 perc

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