FIMC MTM State-based Innovation

In addition to the Medicaid partnerships below, many FIMC agencies also have partnerships with Medicare Advantage plans, supplying post-discharge meals and ongoing nutrition support.

California’s Medi-Cal Medically Tailored Meals Pilot Program is an evaluated Medicaid pilot that provides medically tailored meals and medical nutrition therapy to people living with congestive heart failure. are all providers through this program.
California Food Is Medicine Coalition (CA)

The Colorado Choice Transitions (CCT) demonstration project was money follows the person initiative to provide wrap-around services to Medicaid members who were transitioning from a long-term care facility to independent living. As a result of the success of CCT, Transitions Services was created. Medically tailored meals are one of 4 services covered under home and community-based services waivers for the Transitions Services program.
Project Angel Heart (Denver, CO)

Georgia’s Elderly and Disabled Program helps frail and disabled Medicaid enrollees who otherwise would be eligible for a nursing home stay healthy and at home with the provision of medically tailored meals and other in-home support services.
Open Hand Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)

Launched in March 2020, The Massachusetts Medicaid Demonstration Flexible Services Pilot reimburses for the provision of social services, including nutrition services and medically tailored meals, referred through Accountable Care Organizations.
Community Servings (Boston, MA)

Maryland offers MTM through the Community First Choice Option and a 1915(k) waiver to older adults and people with disabilities.
Moveable Feast (Baltimore, MD)

The Minnesota Medicaid Community Access for Disability Inclusion Waiver and the Elderly Waiver support MTM for populations covered as beneficiaries.
Open Arms Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)

The New York State Value-Based Payment Roadmap, which incorporates social determinants of health interventions, like medically tailored meals, in risk-bearing Medicaid arrangements. Find preliminary outcomes here from God’s Love We Deliver’s provision of MTM through this program, presented at the NYS Medicaid Population Health Symposium.
God’s Love We Deliver, Inc. (New York, NY)

New York’s 1115 Waiver Medicaid Managed Long Term Care program has included MTM for vulnerable individuals for nearly 15 years.
God’s Love We Deliver, Inc. (New York, NY)

New York State became the first in the nation to approve medically tailored meals as a NYS Medicaid In Lieu of Services benefit for personal care aide hours used to prepare meals. A groundbreaking provision would allow Medicaid-managed care plans to offer MTMs as a benefit to enrollees with serious illnesses.
God’s Love We Deliver, Inc. (New York, NY)

Pilot programs within Medicaid Managed Care in Pennsylvania have promoted the provision of medically tailored meals within a high need/high-risk population as a success story within value-based care. Find preliminary outcomes here from MANNA’s provision of MTM through this program.
MANNA (Philadelphia, PA)