Legislation to establish a Food and Health Pilot Program
Reintroduced February 17th by Senator Julian Cyr and Representative Denise Garlick
An Act Relative to Establishing and Implementing a Food and Health Pilot Program would require the Office of Medicaid (MassHealth) to establish a Food and Health Pilot Program that equips health care systems to connect MassHealth enrollees with diet-related health conditions to one of the three appropriate nutrition services, with the expectation that health outcomes will improve and cost of care will decrease.
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The Massachusetts Food is Medicine State Plan
Launched Summer 2019
The Massachusetts Food is Medicine State Plan provides a blueprint to building a health care system that truly recognizes the critical relationship between food and health and ensures access to the nutrition services our state residents need to prevent, manage, and treat diet-related illness.
OUR VISION
We envision a health care system that truly recognizes the critical relationship between food and health and ensures access to nutrition services our state residents need to prevent, manage, and treat diet-related chronic conditions.
Learn more about the impact Food is Medicine nutrition services have on health outcomes and health care costs.
2021 FIMMA Advocacy Agenda
FIMMA’s mission is to build a health care system that reliably identifies people who have health-related nutrition needs, connects them to appropriate FIM interventions, and supports those interventions via sustainable funding.
The FIMMA Advocacy Agenda establishes the framework that the coalition will use to determine its advocacy priorities and the actions that it will take to advance them throughout 2021.
Massachusetts Food is Medicine State Plan Case Study
The Why, How, and Lessons Learned
The Massachusetts Food is Medicine Case Study captures the lessons learned, takeaways, and process details of the MA FIM State plan. FIMMA’s case study motivates context-specific application of FIM interventions. This is a blueprint to inform future initiatives with evidence-based practices and an infrastructure to translate planning to implementation.
