WASHINGTON, June 2 -- Sen. Cory Booker issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Roger Marshall (R-KS), members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz urging CMS to provide clearer guidance defining allowable and non-allowable foods under the Special Supplemental Benefits for the Chronically Ill (SSBCI) in Medicare Advantage (MA). Grocery cards in these health care plans are supposed to help patients purchase healthy foods, which are known to help treat chronic conditions. Instead, insurance companies have used the lack of specificity in CMS guidance to market generic grocery cards that do not imp...