Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Program Pilot Act

• Patients and families: Qualified Medicare Part A beneficiaries can receive at least 2 medically tailored home‑delivered meals per day for an initial 12‑week period and medical nutrition therapy for 12 weeks up to 1 year, with meals meeting about two‑thirds of daily needs and no deductible or cost sharing.
• Hospitals and clinicians: The Secretary will select at least 40 hospitals that meet quality and integrity criteria. Selected hospitals must screen at discharge, staff dietitians and clinicians to deliver care, provide ongoing re‑screening every 12 weeks, and submit data to CMS.
• Medicare program and evaluation: The Secretary sets payment amounts and will run intermediate and final evaluations comparing admissions, Part A costs, and patient experiences and must report at roughly 3 and 8 years after implementation.

*Program payments come from the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and are offset by equal reductions in certain inpatient hospital payments, making the demonstration budget neutral within Medicare Part A.*