Medicare would test free, special home-delivered meals for certain sick patients.
This bill would create a 6-year pilot program under Medicare Part A. It would provide free, medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy to certain patients with diet-impacted diseases after they leave the hospital. The goal is to improve their health and help keep them from being readmitted.
Currently, Medicare Part A does not cover medically tailored home-delivered meals or a specific program to test their impact on health outcomes and readmissions. This bill would establish a 6-year pilot program under Medicare Part A where at least 40 selected hospitals would provide medically tailored home-delivered meals and medical nutrition therapy to qualified individuals, with payments funded by the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and offset by reductions to other hospital payments, and without cost-sharing for beneficiaries.
HR 5439 · 119th Congress · September 17, 2025 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 9/10
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