HLA Attorneys Katherine Purrington and Jen Cedor contribute to a study on the challenges undocumented immigrants face in accessing advanced heart failure therapies.
HLA client Tyler Verrier shares his experience with fighting medical debt following an injury at home. HCFA’s Ashley Blackburn emphasizes that even with the new CFPB rule, more needs to be done to help consumers avoid medical debt.
Check out the Winter 2024-2025 issue of the Docket for client stories, information on our medical debt training series, and insight into HLA’s policy advocacy on at-home healthcare for people with disabilities.
Families across Massachusetts are struggling to push back against denials of ABA and other services.
The Tower Foundation, the original funders of our Mental Health Advocacy Program for Kids (MHAP for Kids), includes MHAP for Kids’ work in their 2023 Annual Highlights
Learn about our case stories, our policy and advocacy work, our training program, the pulse on fundraising, our DEI efforts, and updates in staff!
HLA is one of three organizations receiving grant support from the Atrius Health Equity Foundation to relieve medical debt for people with low and middle income in Eastern Massachusetts.
HLA receives a new grant from the Atrius Health Equity Foundation as part of their initiative to relieve medical debt for people in Eastern Massachusetts! This will enhance the work of our Medical Debt Initiative with expanded multilingual support.
In a recent publication the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation describes estate recovery and its impact on families in Massachusetts. Profiles of people dealing with estate recovery, including an HLA client, illustrate the issue.
In HLA and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s medical-legal partnership for immigrants, health care providers will refer immigrant patients to HLA’s attorneys when they are faced with barriers to getting the care they need.
Without sufficient support, children with limited English proficiency cannot “access the same education” as their peers, comments MHAP for Kids Staff Attorney Brian Bermudez at a hearing about legislation to strengthen interpreter services in schools.
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