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House Ways and Means subcommittee spotlights chronic disease costs, discusses Medicare pilot for medically tailored meals
Summary
A member of the House Ways and Means subcommittee opened a hearing on modernizing American health care, emphasizing rising chronic disease prevalence and outlining proposed legislation and pilot programs including a Medicare pilot for medically tailored meals and the Chronic Disease Flexibility Coverage Act.
A member of the House Ways and Means subcommittee said Wednesday that rising rates of chronic illness require new federal policy approaches and discussed proposed pilot programs and bills to address costs and outcomes.
The subcommittee member said chronic diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease are “skyrocketing” and that “6 in 10 Americans have at least 1 of the 2 chronic diseases.” The member described several legislative and policy proposals discussed in the hearing, including a proposal to establish a Medicare pilot to provide medically…
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