8.1 Develop initiatives, including Medical Legal Partnerships, that address the financial and legal issues cancer patients face during and after treatment

8.2 Advocate for local, state and national policies to enhance and protect financial security when facing cancer (for example, mandatory paid sick leave, decreased wait period for Social Security Disability Insurance cash benefits and Medicare coverage to begin)

8.3 Use hospitals’ Community Health Needs Assessments to demonstrate cancer patients’ need for financial support and legal care services

8.4 Advocate for inclusion of financial and legal care provisions in bundled oncology care packages and other payment mechanisms

8.5 Work with nonprofit hospitals to direct community benefit dollars to agencies and partnerships that provide financial support and legal care services to cancer patients in need

8.6 Develop and pilot a short course on the social determinants of health and cancer for medical and law school students

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