Why Public Health Programs Must Cover Medically Tailored Meals

Medically tailored meals—nutrient-dense, dietitian-designed food prescribed as clinical therapy—reduce hospitalizations by 31 percent and emergency room visits by 20 percent for Medicaid patients, according to research published in Nature Medicine. These interventions, which generated an average of $3,433 in per-person healthcare savings, are increasingly viewed as a viable strategy to lower the $5 trillion spent … Read more