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Medically tailored meals receipt and healthcare utilization and costs in Massachusetts’ Medicaid demonstration

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-026-04407-5

Published Online: 2026-06-02

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Authors

Hager, Kurt https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9957-7971
Alcusky, Matthew

Zhang, Fang Fang

Sing, Gary https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7119-1447
Ash, Arlene https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8448-0253
Mick, Eric

Terranova, Jean

DiBacco, Erin

Buckler, Stephanie

Rich, Allison https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0394-6698
Bowman, Jessica

Folta, Sara https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4366-5622
Prendergast, Kim

Frank, Jasper

Ball, Cheryl

Chiang, Jenny S.

Mozaffarian, Dariush https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7958-9492
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (5R01DK134452-02)

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (5R01DK134452-02)

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (5R01DK134452-02)

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (5R01DK134452-02)

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (5R01DK134452-02)

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (5R01DK134452-02)

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (5R01DK134452-02)

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (5R01DK134452-02)

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (5R01DK134452-02)
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Article History

Received: 18 September 2025

Accepted: 14 April 2026

First Online: 2 June 2026

Competing interests

: D.M. serves as a scientific advisor to Branch Venture Partners, Elysium Health, Instacart Health, January Inc., Nourish and WndrHLTH (ended: Brightseed, Calibrate, Filtricine, Season Health and Validation Institute); reports scientific consulting with Amazon Health and Google Health; and reports equity in HumanCo and chapter royalties from UpToDate. K.H. reports scientific consulting with the nonprofit organization the Food is Medicine Coalition and volunteers as a member of the Value Assessment Task Force for the American Heart Association’s Healthcare by Food initiative. All other authors report no potential competing interests.

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