HR 5439 119th Congress
Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Program Pilot Act
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Program to test a payment and service delivery model under part A of Medicare to improve clinical health outcomes and reduce the rate of readmissions of certain individuals.
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| Official actionReferred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. | No additional detail supplied.IntroReferral · House floor actions · Code H11100 | Congress.gov | |
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| Official actionOrdered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by the Yeas and Nays: 39 - 0. | No additional detail supplied.Committee · House committee actions · Code H19000 | Congress.gov | |
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Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Program Pilot ActThis bill requires the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to establish a temporary program through which certain Medicare beneficiaries with diet-impacted diseases may receive medically tailored meals at home to reduce their rate of hospital readmissions.Specifically, the CMS must select, upon application, at least 40 hospitals to participate in a six-year program to deliver medically tailored meals to qualifying individuals' homes. Participating hospitals must meet specified program integrity and quality of care metrics and certify that they are able to provide the required meals and associated medical nutrition therapy. Hospitals must have a physician, registered dietitian or nutrition professional, advanced practice nurse, or clinical social worker screen inpatients upon discharge from the hospital and every 12 weeks thereafter to determine whether these individuals qualify for the meal program. In order to qualify for the program, individuals must have a diet-impacted disease (e.g., kidney disease), live at home, not be receiving extended care services or hospice care, be limited with respect to at least two activities of daily living, and meet any other criteria for high-risk readmissions (as determined by the CMS).
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- Introduced in HouseSep 17, 2025