Becker's Healthcare February 5, 2025
Elevance Health has more than 60 food-as-medicine programs across its health plans, according to a new report.
The Elevance Health Public Policy Institute published a report describing the types of food-as-medicine programs at the insurer Feb. 5. The report surveyed leaders involved in food-as-medicine initiatives across commercial, Medicaid and MA plans provided by Elevance Health. Most of the respondents worked in Medicaid plans.
“Food-as-medicine interventions often focus on medically tailored meals and groceries and produce prescriptions,” Kofi Essel, MD, food-as-medicine program director at Elevance Health, said in a statement shared with Becker’s. “However, this paper also looked at meaningful public nutrition security programs, community-based interventions and personalized nutrition education.”
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