Pittsburgh Presbytery fundraiser will eliminate medical debt for thousands across Allegheny County

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: https://www.post-gazette.com/news/faith-religion/2025/12/24/pittsburgh-presbytery-fundraiser-medical-debt-undue/stories/202512230083

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More than $14 million in outstanding medical debt will be wiped out for thousands across Allegheny County after churches in the Pittsburgh Presbytery took part in a fundraiser to purchase and eliminate the debt.

Over the past few months, congregants of more than 100 Presbyterian churches donated nearly $75,000 as part of a campaign by the national nonprofit group Undue Medical Debt.

The organization buys medical debts owed to health care providers for pennies on the dollar — meaning each dollar donated could erase more than $100 in debt, the Pittsburgh Presbytery said in a press release.

The fundraiser, which remains open for donations, will help wipe out debt for an estimated 12,500 Allegheny County residents, the church organization said. Those helped will learn their debt has been eliminated once they receive a letter in the mail informing them of the program. Recipients do not know their debt is part of the program until then.

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1. Good

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2. It is extremely nice on a personal level. On a national level it is a disgrace that it is the way it is.