Resources
We publish research, tools, and lessons learned to help healthcare and legal organizations build and operate medical-legal partnerships and to help funders and policymakers advance medical-legal partnership activities. You can search those resources in the library below.
The library also links to journal articles, authored both by National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership staff and MLP practitioners and researchers from the field, that highlight ways medical-legal partnerships have improved patient health and well-being, the healthcare workforce, and healthcare delivery. A list of these articles with summaries are also available on the Peer-Reviewed Research page.
Establishing a Pay-for-Performance Contract Between a Legal Services Organization and a Medicaid Managed Care Organization
In Washington, D.C., Children’s Law Center partnered with AmeriHealth Caritas DC to establish a reimbursement model for legal services delivered to Medicaid enrollees. This case study explores how the medical-legal partnership (MLP) demonstrated its value, the data strategies that supported the partnership, and how the model can be replicated in other states.
Integrating Legal Services into North Carolina’s Medicaid Waiver
This case study focuses on North Carolina’s Healthy Opportunities Pilot (HOP) program, one element of North Carolina’s Section 1115 Medicaid demonstration waiver, and how certain legal services for beneficiaries are covered through this program. It also offers key lessons from medical-legal partnership (MLP) advocates who helped shape and implement this program.
Electronic Exchange of Data and “Closing The Loop”: An Iowa Case Study
This case study provides a concrete example of how a medical-legal partnership (MLP) in Iowa set up electronic referrals in the electronic health record (EHR) as well as the ability to “close the loop” via electronic updates from the legal partner. Those updates are delivered directly to the EHR and describe whether the patient is connected with legal assistance and the legal outcomes of that assistance.
Building a Statewide Subscription Model for MLP Services in Montana with Help from a Primary Care Association: A Montana Case Study
Primary care associations and Health Center Controlled Networks are uniquely situated to serve as a bridge between individual health centers and prospective legal partners, as well as help plan for the financing, operation, and sustainability of medical-legal partnership (MLP) activities. This case study looks at how the Montana Primary Care Association helped develop a statewide subscription model for MLP services.
Building a Statewide MLP Network in Florida
Medical-legal partnership programs are often initiated, structured and implemented based on community needs, funding incentives and restrictions, local culture, and relationships among partners. This report examines Florida’s statewide MLP network, including its history, planning process, statewide activities, and some of the important lessons that can help other states in their statewide efforts. It was published by Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida.
A System-Level Approach to Addressing Health-Harming Legal and Social Needs
This case study delves into the inner-workings of the largest medical-legal partnership in the country between NYC Health + Hospitals and the LegalHealth division of the New York Legal Assistance Group. This partnership serve as an example in incorporating legal services into a holistic strategy to address the health-harming social and other non-medical factors that affect their patients.