The Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI) of Harvard Law School released the report “Food is Medicine: Opportunities in Public and Private Health Care for Supporting Nutritional Counseling and Medically Tailored, Home-Delivered Meals.”The report, funded in part by the M•A•C AIDS Fund, examines ways in which public and private health care programs like Medicaid, Medicare and new marketplace health insurance plans can support access to nutritional counseling and medically tailored home-delivered meals within their systems.
“We are at a unique point in time, when new health policy reforms, both within and outside of the Affordable Care Act, have opened the door for the inclusion of innovative services that both improve health outcomes and ultimately reduce health care costs,” said Robert Greenwald, Director of the Center.
“Through legal and policy analysis, our report identifies opportunities within our health care systems for integrating and reimbursing specific food and nutrition service interventions that can help move us toward reducing health disparities, promoting health, and reducing costs.”
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