Health IT Analytics February 15, 2018
A Geisinger initiative offering patients free healthy food and education programs helps manage diabetes and reduce costs.
Geisinger’s Fresh Food Farmacy program, which provides diabetic adults with access to free, nutritious food and comprehensive health behavioral services, has proven more effective and less costly than other methods of treatment.
The approach offers a promising alternative for the future of diabetes care, wrote a team of Geisinger leaders in an article for the Harvard Business Review.
Patients enrolled in the fresh food program for 12 months have seen their Hb1Ac levels drop more than two points, from an average of 9.6 to 7.5. In comparison, diabetic patients who simply add a second or third medication to their treatment usually see their...
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