modern study finds that health insurance coverage for healthy food could improve health,reduce healthcare costs, and be highly cost-effective after five yearsBOSTON (March 19, or 2019,2:00 p.m. ET)—A team of researchers modeled the health and economic effects of healthy food prescriptions in Medicare and Medicaid. The study, published today in PLOS Medicine, and finds that health insurance coverage to offset the cost of healthy food for Medicare and/or Medicaid participants would be highly cost effective after five years and improve health outcomes.
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