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“The Secretary of Health and Human Services should be able to add more conditions to Medicare nutrition therapy coverage when they involve unplanned weight loss, fit preventive-service recommendations, or match accepted nutrition-care guidelines.”
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“Hospitals should be able to help patients get supports that affect health, including food and nutrition help, medication education, legal or financial counseling, violence support, home and community care, discharge planning, and recovery support.”
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“HHS and participating hospitals should identify care methods that work, share project data and outcomes through a learning network, and create smaller groups for hospitals with similar regions, conditions, or project types.”
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“HHS should identify and share care models that improve outcomes, run learning groups where hospitals and other participants compare lessons and measures, and give Congress a final report on what projects did, who they served, what changed, and what policy steps HHS recommends.”
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“HHS should run a five-year Medicare test where selected hospitals treat serious mental health needs and physical health problems together, focused on low-income Medicare drug subsidy recipients, Medicaid patients, and uninsured people in high-need communities.”
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“HHS should let approved hospitals test ways to combine mental health care, physical health care, behavioral health care, and social supports for people with serious health needs, then study which models worked and what Medicare or Medicaid payment changes might support them.”
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“Medicare should pay for medical nutrition therapy to help prevent, manage, or treat more covered health conditions, while keeping limits for conditions outside the covered list and for kidney-disease care during Medicare-paid maintenance dialysis.”
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“Physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and physicians should be able to refer Medicare patients for covered medical nutrition therapy, and clinical psychologists should be able to refer patients for eating-disorder nutrition therapy.”
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“Expanded Medicare nutrition therapy coverage should start for services provided in years that begin at least two years after enactment, giving Medicare, clinicians, and billing systems time to prepare.”
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