Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Program Pilot Act
Reported from committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 35
- Latest action
- Sep 16, 2026
What it does
The bill would establish a six-year pilot program under Medicare Part A to test providing medically tailored home-delivered meals and medical nutrition therapy to qualified individuals discharged from selected hospitals, aiming to improve health outcomes and reduce readmissions. It would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to select at least 40 eligible hospitals—such as subsection (d) hospitals or critical access hospitals meeting quality and program integrity standards—to participate, with hospitals responsible for screening patients, providing meals and therapy, and submitting data. Services under the program would be provided without Medicare cost-sharing, funded by the…
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Where it stands
Introduced (Done)
Committee (Current step)
Floor (Not started)
Law (Not started)
What moved
Who is involved
Sponsors
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Where it goes next
While a bill can still move, the questions are about people and money.