A survey from Regions Financial Corp. found that 54 percent of Americans did not know how to obtain debt relief for medical bills, 49 percent did not know how to use a health savings account to cover costs and 48 percent did not know how to negotiate a medical bill.
Additionally, the survey found that 35 percent of Americans have medical debt and 82 percent of those with debt are struggling to resolve it, according to a Dec. 9 Regions Bank news release.
The results are based on an online survey of 1,606 adults.