Elevance Health is integrating its food as medicine program for Medicaid members in community health centers, the insurer announced. In partnership with the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), the company said it will begin training primary provider teams. Now, certain Medicaid members at risk for diet-related chronic conditions can receive personalized nutrition support, a news release said. “Incorporating food as medicine directly into primary care enables us to treat nutrition not just as a social driver of health, but as a clinical lever for improving outcomes,” Shantanu Agrawal, M.D., chief health officer at Elevance Health, said in a statement.
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