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Food Is Medicine (FIM) programs integrate nutrition support directly into care, helping people better manage chronic conditions and broader health needs, including pregnancy. At Centene, these programs provide practical options, including medically tailored meals and produce prescriptions, to help address conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease.  

Delivering healthcare services directly to people experiencing homelessness and training the next generation of physicians in street medicine is the goal of a new five-year, $2.5 million grant from the Human Resources and Services Administration, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to Penn State College of Medicine. The new funding…

When Congress passed a spending package earlier this year, few industries were more disappointed than pharmacy benefit managers. PBMs are middlemen who liaise between insurers, drug manufacturers and pharmacies to determine which drugs are covered at what price. Their job, as the New York Times reported in 2024, “is to reduce drug costs. Instead, they…