Opinion: Medically tailored meals save lives. Health plans should cover their cost
Medically tailored meals hew to Hippocrates' edict to "let food be thy medicine." Improving nutrition for people who are sick addresses — and alleviates — illness and improves lives.
If nutritious meals can provide the same kind of benefit as medication, then why don’t health plans cover the cost of medically tailored meals, just as they cover prescription medications? It’s a question my colleagues and I at Community Servings, a nonprofit organization that provides nutritious meals for people with critical illnesses who are too sick to feed themselves or their families, have been wrestling with for years.
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