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Medically tailored meals receipt and healthcare utilization and costs in Massachusetts’ Medicaid demonstration | Nature Medicine
Smaller quasi-experimental studies and short-term controlled trials of medically tailored meals (MTMs) have shown health benefits for several conditions, but MTMs have not been evaluated in large-scale policy initiatives. Multiple US states are now implementing MTMs in Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income individuals, yet their impact has not been evaluated. We investigated changes in hospitalizations, emergency department (ED) visits and healthcare costs among 1,866 MTM recipients and 1,372 comparators from 2020 to 2023 across 11 health systems in Massachusetts. Both...
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