08/31/26
Medically Tailored Meals (MTMs) and Medically Tailored Groceries (MTGs) are Food is Medicine interventions which integrate disease-specific, evidence-based, food and nutrition into clinical care for clients living with severe, chronic, or complex illness(es).
Poor diets and food insecurity drive over $1.1 trillion in U.S. healthcare spending and lost productivity each year in the United States. By comparison, nutrition interventions are quite inexpensive: For the cost of one day in the hospital (~$2,419), a patient can receive nearly six months of MTM at home.
Read the full report from the Food is Medicine Coalition
