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SUBMITTER: Berkowitz SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324546 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Berkowitz Seth A SA Terranova Jean J Hill Caterina C Ajayi Toyin T Linsky Todd T Tishler Lori W LW DeWalt Darren A DA
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20180401 4
Delivering food to nutritionally vulnerable patients is important for addressing these patients' social determinants of health. However, it is not known whether food delivery programs can reduce the use of costly health services and decrease medical spending among these patients. We sought to determine whether home delivery of either medically tailored meals or nontailored food reduces the use of selected health care services and medical spending in a sample of adults dually eligible for Medicar ...[more]