Committee backs pilot to test medically tailored meals for Medicare patients
Ways and Means favorably reported HR 5439 to create a six-year, budget-neutral Medicare pilot reimbursing hospitals to provide medically tailored home-delivered meals and nutrition therapy to discharged beneficiaries; committee discussed eligibility, dual-eligibles, and safeguards against double-dipping with SNAP.
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The House Ways and Means Committee voted to favorably report HR 5439, a pilot program to reimburse selected hospitals for medically tailored home-delivered meals and associated medical nutrition therapy for certain Medicare beneficiaries after hospital discharge. Sponsors said the pilot would select at least 40 hospitals nationwide, prioritize rural and underserved hospitals in the application process, and rigorously evaluate health outcomes and readmission rates.
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