Payers could save $13.6B annually by covering medically-tailored meals, study finds
The study found that if certain adults received medically-tailored meals, about 1.6 million hospitalizations would have been avoided, resulting in $38.7 billion saved in healthcare expenditures. Programs to provide these meals would have cost $24.8 billion, leading to $13.6 billion in net savings, according to the report.