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ISPOR announced the plenary sessions and speakers for ISPOR 2024, its annual international conference., and the leading global conference for health economics a

On Sundays, the Rev. Carl Nichols preaches at Big Zion AME Zion Church in little Kenansville on North Carolina’s coastal plain. Tuesdays to Fridays, he drives a cargo van on a daily 320-mile circuit along rural roads edged with pine and fields of tobacco, collards and corn. His mission: delivering boxes of food to people who cannot always afford their own. The minister, his wife, two grown daughters and three helpers make up a tiny nonprofit whose food deliveries are part of an experiment that p

Medicaid pilot program in food as medicine shows promise. Delivery service offers fresh fruits, vegetables to address diabetes, obesity, hypertension.

A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine discovered that the cost of providing evidence-based solutions for food, housing, transportation and care coordination is $60 per member per month on average. Existing federal funding covers $27 per member per month, less than half of the total cost.

Researchers estimate that existing federal funding covers less than half the total cost of delivering evidence-based interventions for food, housing, transportation and care coordination needsSAN FRANCISCO