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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.

Learn about our case stories, our policy and advocacy work, our training program, the pulse on fundraising, our DEI efforts, and updates in staff!

Learn about our case stories, our policy and advocacy work, our training program, the pulse on fundraising, our DEI efforts, and updates in staff!

Community leaders, including HLA, Health Care For All, and Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts, are here to help as the state prepares to drop hundreds of thousands of people from the MassHealth insurance program.

Learn about our case stories, our policy and advocacy work, our training program, the pulse on fundraising, our DEI efforts, and updates in staff!

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 applauds the Biden Administration’s new Public Charge Rule which restores the ability of immigrants to participate in public benefits without jeopardizing their immigration status.

Health Law Advocates is one of 140 local nonprofits to receive a grant of $100,000 to $500,000 each through Cummings Foundation’s $25 Million Grant Program. HLA was chosen from a total of 590 applicants and will receive $100,000 over 2 years.

Today, the Massachusetts Legislature bolstered areas most impacted by COVID-19 by passing the Final Budget for FY’21. The budget made important investments for some of the most vulnerable in the Commonwealth: children.

Last Friday HLA joined Health Care for All and the Public Health Law Watch in filing an amicus brief supporting the state’s temporary suspension of evictions as landlords argue that the law is unconstitutional.

MHAP for Kids was highlighted at the Spring Meeting of the American Bar Association Commission on Homelessness and Poverty as a model for best practice locally and nationally. Read about our program's outcomes in our paper we co-authored with BU.

Despite unprecedented health and economic crises, Attorney General William Barr and 18 state officials still want the Supreme Court to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act in California v. Texas.

Even Though The Public Charge Rule Is Set To Go Into Effect On February 24thafter The Last Preliminary Injunction Was Lifted, This Cruel Policy Can Still Be Stopped In The Courts

Using CHIA’s 2017 Massachusetts Health Insurance Survey, four affordability measures were examined including problems paying family medical bills, family medical debt, unmet health care needs due to cost, and high out-of-pocket health care spending.

Read the latest on HLA's trailblazing program!

On December 7, 2018, HLA submitted comments to the Dept. of Homeland Security condemning a proposed attack on immigrant communities

Read our joint statement on Question 1 for the 2018 election

The final report from BU's School of Public Health evaluates the efficacy of MHAP for Kids

The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, or the Federal Parity Law, was enacted in 2008 to address health insurance practices that unfairly limited consumers' access to mental health and substance use care.