What is the most common complaint against Medical Business Bureau?

The most common issue consumers report about Medical Business Bureau is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt is not yours". This is based on 352 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Medical Business Bureau increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Medical Business Bureau are falling. The company received 6 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Medical Business Bureau's reputation grade?

Medical Business Bureau has a reputation grade of F (score: 48.5/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Medical Business Bureau respond to consumer complaints?

Medical Business Bureau has a 95% timely response rate to CFPB complaints. Consumers disputed the company's response in 35% of cases.

In how many states does Medical Business Bureau operate?

Medical Business Bureau has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 26 states, with the most complaints from Illinois (179 complaints).

This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.

Medical Business Bureau - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 26 states, reputation grade F.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

103
Written notification about debt

91
Disclosure verification of debt

56
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed

52
False statements or representation

18
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

12

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record medical-business-bureau Medical Business Bureau

Grade F · 352 CFPB filings · 95% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #350 · compose #4270

VOL 352
GRADE F
12MO 6
STATES 26
TIMELY 95%
DISPUTE 35%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #350
COMPOSE #4,270

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Merchants Adjustment Service, Inc. (352 complaints)

CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

Medical Business Bureau's 352 CFPB complaints sit next to Merchants Adjustment Service, Inc. on the volume neighbourhood; peer NAMES stay, and disposition VALUES are this collector's. Grades compare collectors to each other - a complaint is a filing, not a proven violation. How to read a complaint count →

State-heavy filing map

50.9% of Medical Business Bureau's CFPB filings land in Illinois

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Medical Business Bureau is volume #350 but composite #4,270, while Illinois dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Illinois 50.9%; 179 of 352 filings · 26 states touched
Seasonal peak: 2022-04 10.2%; 8–15% band · 6 filings
Divergent corpus ranks: #350 volume; #4,270 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 3,920 places worse than volume

How does Medical Business Bureau compare to its peers?

How does Medical Business Bureau compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

Medical Business Burea… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

95%

99%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

35%

24%

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2021-12 2024-06

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	103
Written notification about debt	91
Disclosure verification of debt	56
Cont'd attempts collect debt not owed	52
False statements or representation	18
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	12
Communication tactics	10
Improper contact or sharing of info	4
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	2
Electronic communications	2

Where do complaints against Medical Business Bureau come from?

Medical Business Bureau's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Illinois

179
Texas

54
Florida

42
New Jersey

12
California

11
New York

6
Georgia

4
Kentucky

4

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Medical Business Bureau: nearest all-time CFPB complaint volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among collectors with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.

Similar filing volume

Nearest collectors by total CFPB complaints. This record: 352.

4 peers

Similar timely response rate

Nearest collectors by CFPB 15-day timely-response %. This record: 94.55587392550143%.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database, 1,139,236 debt collection complaints are represented in the current PlainCollector snapshot. See our methodology for how PlainCollector computes each company's reputation grade from this data.

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