ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2025
Estimated Impact Of Medically Tailored Meals On Health Care Use And Expenditures In 50 US States.
Article in Health affairs (Project Hope), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- "This Program has Given Me the Proper Nutrition that I Deserve": Participant Perspective on a Medically Tailored Meal Intervention.Journal of primary care & community healthTrial
- The Impact of Medically Tailored Meals Interventions on Hospital Utilization in Maryland.AJPM focus · 2026Article
- What next? Sustaining anti-obesity pharmacotherapy success through metabolic maintenance.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2026Review
- Food is Medicine: Implementation Considerations to Optimize Medically Tailored Meal Programs.Circulation. Population health and outcomes · 2026Article
- A High-Fiber, Plant-Based Diet in Myeloma Precursor Disorders: Results from the NUTRIVENTION Clinical Trial and Preclinical Vk*MYC Model.Cancer discovery · 2026Article
- Economic Impact of a Precision Nutrition Digital Therapeutic on Employer Health Costs: A Multi-Employer and Multi-Year Claims Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Medically Tailored Meals: A Case for Federal Policy Action.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Delaware Food Farmacy: Integrating Medically Tailored Groceries and Community Health Workers into Chronic Disease Management.Delaware journal of public health · 2025Article
- Increasing Access to Healthy Food through Food is Medicine, 2020-2025: Blue Cross NC and the Blue Cross NC Foundation.North Carolina medical journal · 2025Article
- Food is medicine for pregnant women: A missed opportunity in maternal and child health.Pregnancy (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issuedErrata.2025
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7 authors.
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Abstract
Medically tailored meals (MTMs) can reduce health care use among high-risk patients with diet-related conditions. However, the potential impact of providing coverage for MTMs across fifty US states remains unknown. Using a population-based, open-cohort simulation model, we estimated state-specific one-year and five-year changes in annual hospitalizations, health care spending, and cost-effectiveness of MTMs for patients with diet-related diseases and limitations in activities of daily living, covered by Medicaid, Medicare, or private insurance. Assuming full uptake among eligible people, MTMs were net cost saving in the first year in forty-nine states, with the largest savings seen in Connecticut ($6,299 per patient). The exception was Alabama, where MTMs were cost-neutral. The number of treated patients needed to avert one hospitalization ranged from 2.3 (Maryland) to 6.9 (Colorado). These findings can inform state-level policy makers and health plans considering MTM coverage through state-specific strategies.
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