MLPs in the VHA help minimize ethical tensions that tend to come up when diagnosing and documenting disability.

Data on certain chronic conditions’ prevalence, incidence of potentially preventable morbidity, and health-harming legal factors influence approaches to care.

Legal advocacy addresses patients’ health-harming legal needs in housing, public benefits, employment, education, immigration, domestic violence, and other areas of law.

MLP innovations seek to address patients’ criminal as well as postrelease civil legal needs.

AMA Code opinions about collaborative care, health inequity, financial barriers to health care access, and physician responsibilities for safe patient discharge from health care facilities can apply to MLPs.

MLPs have been overlooked as a strategy to advance reproductive health and justice.

Undocumented people in the US face legal and structural barriers to health care services, including for kidney failure.

Expanding MLPs’ positive health impact requires secure funding.

Integrating health care service delivery with illness and injury prevention and broader goals of social justice is a problem MLPs can help navigate.

The evidence base for “patients-to-policy” work in MLPs shows benefits to patients, clinicians, and hospital and legal systems.