IN PERSON EVENT

Medical Debt & Health Equity in MA:

What You Need to Know

We invite you to join us for an in-person event on April 8, 2025, 8:30 AM to 11 AM, at the Boston Bar Association, 16 Beacon Street, Boston, MA.

This engaging and important gathering focuses on understanding and addressing medical debt and health equity in Massachusetts, in addition to sharing our medical debt initiative and progress to date.

RSVP by April 6, 2025. Morning refreshments will be provided.

For any inquiries or additional information, please contact us at info@atriusfoundation.org. We look forward to seeing you!

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Agenda 

  • 8:30 AM: Attendees arrive and check in.  Coffee and light breakfast will be available. 

  • 9:00 AM: Opening remarks: Ann Hwang, President, Atrius Health Equity Foundation

  • 9:05 AM: Presentation and Q&A: Allison Sesso, CEO, Undue Medical Debt

Ms. Sesso will provide an overview of the problem of medical debt nationwide, its health equity implications, examples of Undue’s innovative partnerships to acquire debt, and examples of policies that leading states have adopted.   

  • 9:35 AM: Presentation and Q&A: Lauren Peters, Executive Director, Center for Health Information and Analysis

Ms. Peters will present selected findings from the Health Care Affordability section of the 2023 Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey, with a focus on the inequitable burden of the cost of care and medical debt.

  • Jason Reis, Medical Debt Advocate, Health Law Advocates

  • Chi Chi Wu, Senior Attorney, National Consumer Law Center

 10:50 AM: Closing Remarks: Amy Rosenthal, Executive Director, Health Care for All