Prescribing food as medicine is more cost effective, a study says.
Prescriptions for healthy foods could help lower the risk of expensive chronic illnesses like cardiovascular disease and diabetes in Medicare and Medicaid patients, a new study suggests.
The research team observed people between the ages of 35 and 80 who were enrolled in Medicare and or Medicaid, and used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from the past three years. The team then came up with two scenarios to measure how patients’ health and general cost would be impacted with health food prescriptions.
The study determined that under the proposed prescription models, patients would rely less on health-care. Researchers found that the first food-prescription model would decrease health-care costs by nearly $40 billion. The second policy model would reduce health-care costs by more than $100 billion.
“From a health-care perspective, considering policy costs and formal health-care costs, the food and vegetable incentive was estimated to save $39.7 billion in formal health-care costs, with net costs of $83.5 billion over a lifetime; corresponding values for the healthy food incentive were larger at $100.2 billion and $111.1 billion, respectively,” the study explained.
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