
Medicare offers new path to help battle food insecurity in older adults
"Many U.S. office-based physicians and clinicians will find it easier to be reimbursed for efforts to identify and treat food insecurity or nutrition risks under a new merit-based incentive payment system (MIPS) recently approved by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for 2022 reporting. The new improvement activity will support health equity and benefit active aging. "