tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2018 Issue 8

Industry Note: Food for Thought: Meal Planning Reduces Hospital Readmissions, Research Suggests

If you want to cut down on hospital readmissions, meal planning might be the ticket, suggest the findings of a new study in the journal Health Affairs. A study led by a University of North Carolina researcher compared admissions and health spending for "nutritionally vulnerable patients" receiving both "medically tailored" meal delivery and "nontailored" meals. "Compared with matched nonparticipants, participants had fewer emergency department visits in both the medically tailored meal program and the nontailored food program," says the abstract published in the April issue. "Participants in the medically tailored meal program also had fewer inpatient admissions and...

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