WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- Sen. Cory Booker issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Mehmet Oz and Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Director Abraham Sutton, urging CMMI to develop and test a model that evaluates the impact of providing medically tailored home-delivered meals to Medicare beneficiaries with acute and chronic diet-related illnesses.
"Congress established CMMI to test innovative payment and service-delivery models that improve care quality while reducing expenditures for the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Medically tailored meals (MTMs) are an ideal candidate therapy for achieving th...