Establishes a six-year Medicare pilot in which selected hospitals provide home-delivered, medically tailored meals to qualified patients with diet-related diseases after discharge, aiming to improve health and reduce hospital readmissions.

• Requires selected hospitals to screen discharged inpatients and re-screen enrolled patients every 12 weeks to determine eligibility.
• Requires participating hospitals to deliver at least two medically tailored meals a day for at least 12 weeks, plus medical nutrition therapy, with no cost-sharing for patients.
• Selects at least 40 hospitals, which must be subsection (d) hospitals with an average overall star rating of at least 3 or critical access hospitals.
• Funds the program from the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and reduces payments to subsection (d) hospitals so the reductions are estimated to equal program spending.
• Requires evaluations of health outcomes and costs, with reports to the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees 3 and 8 years after implementation.

• Ways and Means Committee (House)

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