
RIP MEDICAL DEBT’S
Year-End Summits
Friday, Nov 9: Medical Debt in America
Saturday, Nov 10: Veterans’ Medical Debt
Serendipity Labs
28 Liberty Street, 6th Floor
New York City
Overview
Two days for discussing medical debt in America and veterans’ medical debt.
A look at problems and solutions.
“Healthcare” in America has become too confusing, too costly to deliver, too expensive to receive. The Friday summit focuses the problems and solutions for medical debt in America. The Saturday summit focuses on problems and solutions for the medical debt of veterans and military.
The summit will feature a presentation on the early findings from an economic impact study of medical debt forgiveness. A second highlight will be RIP announcing forgiveness of $500 million in medical debt on all 50 states (through a major donation), including $50 million in veterans’ medical debt.
Agenda — Friday, Nov 8
RIP Medical Debt, the nonprofit featured by John Oliver on HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” is hosting a major summit on the medical debt crises in America. The event brings together industry leaders from all corners of the healthcare world. Speakers, panels and working groups will come up with viable solutions for the intractable problem of unpaid and unpayable medical debt.
An historic first, early findings will be revealed in relationship to the economic impact study of medical debt forgiveness being performed by four major universities. Francis Wong from the University of California at Berkeley will be on hand to deliver this report. He represents the team from four universities: UC/Berkeley, UCLA, University of Chicago, and MIT. The research is being conducted with help from RIP Medical Debt and data scientists at TransUnion Healthcare.
MORNING
8:00 – 9:00
Light breakfast
9:00 – 9:15
Welcome by RIP Medical Debt More
9:15 – 9:30
Introduction by Dr. Anthony Ferreri, Regional Director, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
9:30 – 10:10
Ideation Session #1: Introductions
10:10 – 10:40
Panel #1 and Q&A More
10:40 – 11:00
Preliminary report on the Economic Impact Study More
11:00 – 12:00
Ideation Session #2 More
Agenda — Saturday, Nov 9
Saturday summit’s singular focus is the medical debt shouldered by our military and veterans. RIP sees veterans’s medical debt as the unfortunate “collateral damage” of a government and private healthcare system which clearly does not deliver on America’s promise to take care of its warriors. Participants will include governmental and NGO resources, veterans and veteran advocates, technology and data experts.
Attendees are invited to march with the RIP contingent and its float in Sunday’s famous New York Veterans Day Parade, the largest in the nation,
AFTERNOON
12:00 – 12:45
Lunch & Networking
12:45 – 1:00
Major Announcement presented by Craig Antico
1:00 – 2:00
Panel #2 and Q&A More
2:00 – 3:00
Open-ended Q&A and town hall discussion.
3:00 – 3:15
Break
3:15 – 4:00
Panel #3 and Q&A More
4:00 – 4:30
Ideation Session #3 More
4:30 – 5:00
Closing remarks
5:00 – 6:00
Reception with “Your IPA” beer and snacks, generously donated by RIP partner, Melvin Brewing.
About RIP
RIP Medical Debt is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charity, based in New York, established in 2014 to abolish unpaid and unpayable medical debt. Funded by donations from individuals and organizations, RIP locates and buys “portfolios” of medical debt (for pennies on the dollar) and then simply forgives the debt, no strings attached — a random act of kindness.
RIP Leadership at the Summit

Craig Antico, Co-Founder, CEO

Jerry Ashton, Co-Founder, EVP

Mikel Burroughs, Col (ret) US Army, Vice President
Support Our Veterans Campaign
Make a donation today to abolish a veterans medical debt
Summit Attendants
Economic Impact Study Team
- Wes Yin, PhD, Associate Professor of Public Policy, UCLA.
- Neale Mahoney, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago.
- Francis Wong, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, UC/Berkeley.
- Ray Kluender, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics, MIT.
Organizations Attending
- America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
- American Initiatives for Veteran Support (AIMS)
- AmericCollect
- Artsy
- ASB Consulting
- Bloomberg Healthcare
- Bluewater Wireless
- Congressional Universal Health Care Task Force
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Custom Benefits Solution
- DebtCleanse
- DvM Communications
- Enigma Health and Human Services
- HR&A Advisors
- Ilene Proctor International Public Relations
- InSight Public Affairs
- Integral Gastroenterology Center
- Marketwatch
- Maurice Wutscher, LLP
- Medical Debt Hub
- National Consumer Law Center
- New Jersey Creditors Rights
- Nixon-Peabody
- Northwell Health
- Patriot Mission
- Peter Sheehan Diabetes Care Foundation (PSDC)
- Projects in the Public Interest
- RMA International
- Senex Services Corp
- Shared Harvest Fund
- Together for the Good
- TransUnion Healthcare
- UC/Berkeley Economics Department
- USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy
- Verizon HIPAA Security
- Vytalize Health
Summit Partners




