Insurers focusing on food as medicine in coverage plans
Plans are paying for temporary meal deliveries and some are going beyond that to teach people how to cook and eat healthier foods.
Source: wtsp.com
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Plans are paying for temporary meal deliveries and some are going beyond that to teach people how to cook and eat healthier foods.
“We’ve seen time and again, the lack of good and nutritional food causes members to get readmitted" to hospitals, Oscar executive Ananth Lalithakumar said.
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