Community Servings is a Boston-based not-for-profit provider of about 2,500 medically tailored meals a day. The organization’s CEO, David B. Waters, makes a powerful argument in Stat that the meals should be included in coverage packages provided by health insurance plans.
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If nutritious meals can provide the same kind of benefit as medication, then why don’t health plans cover the cost of medically tailored meals, just as they cover prescription medications? It’s a question my colleagues and I at Community Servings, a nonprofit organization that provides nutritious meals for people with critical illnesses who are too sick to feed themselves or their families, have been wrestling with for years.
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