Tuesday, January 5, 2010
A palliative care-based MLP helped patients enroll in previously denied health care coverage, and helped the hospital recover $923,188 in unreimbursed clinical services....Read More
Friday, April 11, 2008
Through secondary data analysis, this study evaluates a program that offered legal services to help patients at a rural hospital address health-related legal issues, including Medicaid reimbursement, Social Security benefits, medication coverage, and divorce. Based on the analysis of reimbursements to expenditures, the medical-legal partnership was cost-effective and thereby economically sustainable....Read More
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
This paper examines how collaborations between law schools and medical practices can provide rich educational and training opportunities for students to engage in interdisciplinary lawyering....Read More
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
The American Academy of Pediatrics passed a resolution “encouraging closer and more frequent collaboration between legal service and medical professionals” and specifically promoted medical-legal partnership as a strategy to improve the health and well-being of children....Read More