FOOD FIX CAMPAIGN ACTION, INC.

Advocacy for provisions related to a national strategy related to hunger and nutrition and Food is Medicine initiatives in FY 2024 and FY 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations measures.

Advocacy on Medicare Food as Medicine, improvements to Medicare services related to nutrition clinical care and related physician and hospital reimbursement. Support medically tailored meals for Medicare beneficiaries, including provisions in H.R. 6780, the Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Pilot Act, and S. 2133, the Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Demonstration Act.

Support improvement in nutrition, food as medicine, and chronic disease issues especially in the elderly, including advocacy on: a unified national strategy related to hunger and nutrition; a Food as Medicine pilot program; funding and guidance on nutrition education and training for physicians and health care providers and research on the role of nutrition in diet-related disease, including related provisions in S. 2840, the Bipartisan Primary Care and Health Workforce Act to: (1) require HHS, in consultation with USDA, to create a strategic plan to improve health outcomes related to chronic conditions; and (2) require the HHS strategic plan to recommend ways to enable federally funded community health centers to provide produce prescriptions, medically tailored groceries, and medically tailored meals, and issue recommendations to help in reimbursement for such services in other federal programs.

Support regenerative organic agriculture, improvements in nutrition, and food as medicine, including nutrition and chronic disease related improvements to SNAP-Ed, and advocacy related to the 2023 Farm Bill reauthorization.