NPPC, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School, Food is Medicine Coalition, and The Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University shared learnings and recommendations derived from our collective on-the-ground networks for the utilization of produce prescriptions and other Food As Medicine benefits in Medicaid to CMS Administrator Brooks-LaSure.

We write as participants in the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health and longtime experts in research, law, and implementation of Medicaid and other health care food and nutrition policies to share feedback and recommendations regarding section 1115 demonstrations piloting nutrition interventions, informed by a survey of on-the-ground implementers, participants, and evaluators of these demonstrations.

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