Financing Medical-Legal Partnerships: View from the Field

Report / Fact Sheet
Written By NCMLP

Description

To date, nearly 350 health organizations nationwide have implemented medical-legal partnerships (MLPs). This fact sheet draws on national survey data from these organizations and their partnering legal organizations to describe programs’ average budgets as well as a variety of health, legal, and philanthropic funding streams that currently fund MLPs. It also discusses how MLPs are adapting to meet their funding challenges and highlights examples of programs implementing innovative Medicaid financing models to pay for MLP services.

 

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Authors

  • Jennifer Trott, MPH, Lead Research Scientist, Department of Health Policy & Management, The George Washington University

  • Marsha Regenstein, PhD, Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management, The George Washington University

  • Alanna Peterson, Senior Research Assistant, Department of Health Policy & Management, The George Washington University

This fact sheet was published by the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership.

 

Acknowledgment

This report is possible thanks to generous support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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