Stephanie Armour
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first heard Jul 2021
last heard Feb 2023
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There can be an impact on health and savings by reducing the medical visits or the need for medication or helping to control serious illnesses by using food to help with conditions.
Sure, thanks for having me.
No, this is actually something that the Biden administration has approved for a number of states now, specifically for their Medicaid programs, which are programs that generally help cover health coverage for people who are lower income or disabled.
And how this works is that basically it allows the state to use its Medicaid funds, which are a combination of state and federal funding, to in some cases purchase food or nutritional counseling for certain at-risk people in the Medicaid program.
Generally.
In some cases, the state may refer someone to a related program that provides some of the food and produce.
In other cases, the state may pay and have what they call medically tailored meals delivered to someone's home if they're a Medicaid enrollee for benefits.
say, six months.
So it varies in terms of how it works.
Each state has kind of their own system that they've set up for this.
But by and large, the way it works is that this is taxpayer funds that are used to purchase food on behalf of beneficiaries who are seen at risk of not having enough food or having illnesses that could be affected by not having good, healthy food.
Well, this program is part of broader changes that the states are doing in Medicaid to address what they call social determinants of health that are things that are beyond sort of the traditional doctor's office that affect people's health.
For example, in some states that have people who are vulnerable to high heat, they may be able to get an air conditioner, for example.
But by and large, the food component, which is one part of this, is really limited to fruits, vegetables, proteins, things that are considered healthy items, but not junk food.
The Biden administration is doing this because there's been a growing body of studies and research that are showing that this often has a return on investment, if you will, in terms of fewer trips to the emergency room, better control of chronic health conditions, and also because the administration has been focused on
dealing with what is known as food insecurity, that is, households that don't have access to sufficient or high-quality food.
That was about 11% of U.S.
households before the pandemic and rose to about 15% post-pandemic.
There's no specific breakdown for how much would go specifically to food as part of these test models because they also include other things like air conditioners or other types of programs.
Although in each case, the federal government has set up a system to try to set up some metrics to find out how effective it is, especially the food part of the program.
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