Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
This bill requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to establish and test a program called the Accountable Produce Is Medicine Bundled Payment Model, which provides comprehensive health services to Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance Program beneficiaries with chronic diseases. The program must select at least five healthcare providers to participate for a minimum of two years and focus on individuals in underserved areas with conditions like diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension. Selected programs would offer eligible participants a bundle of services including nutrition counseling, care coordination, telehealth monitoring, lifestyle modification programs, and access to healthy foods—particularly fresh produce grown locally or using regenerative agricultural practices—with no out-of-pocket costs to participants. The model would run for at least five years, with providers collecting health data quarterly to measure outcomes like weight, blood pressure, and blood glucose levels, and potentially facing financial incentives or penalties based on performance after the third year. The bill reflects the congressional view that food-based interventions can help reduce chronic disease-related healthcare costs in the United States.
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