End-of-year spending: Invest now in Food as Medicine opportunities

by Sifter
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Judy Seybold
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MS, RDN, LD, CLC
December 17, 2024
December 17, 2024
As 2024 comes to an end, the Food as Medicine movement is poised for extraordinary growth. That’s why this is the ideal time for healthcare organizations, including hospitals, health systems, and payers, to make a significant year-end investment.
Sifter is the Food as Medicine Platform.

Here's what’s driving the momentum:

• Rising burden of chronic diseases: Poor diet remains a leading contributor to chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. Investing now in nutrition-focused interventions will reduce the burden of chronic disease and associated healthcare costs for 2025 and beyond.

• Public health policy opportunities: The incoming Trump administration has signaled interest in tackling the nation's chronic disease epidemic through improved diet. Organizations that invest early in healthy-eating programs can leverage these opportunities and influence the development of future policies.

• Accelerated shift toward value-based care: Patient care focused on value is reshaping current medical practice. Food-based programs like medically tailored meals (MTMs) and food vouchers can improve health outcomes and reduce costs, significantly boosting value-based metrics.

Sifter Solutions supports your year-end investment with turnkey solutions that enable health providers and payers to deliver advanced, cost-effective Food as Medicine programs:

✓ Sifter is the first platform to generate a customized selection of grocery foods designed to meet the specific dietary needs of people with chronic health conditions like diabetes, obesity, and heart disease.

✓ Sifter’s medically tailored grocery solutions (MTGs) save money and extend positive health outcomes of MTMs, which are expensive and labor-intensive.

✓ Our industry-leading approved product lists (APLs) power next-generation food benefit cards that are customizable to specific chronic diseases.

The beauty of Sifter is that our solutions are configurable and highly flexible. Contact us to learn how we can support a new Food as Medicine program launch in 2025 or improve your current initiatives to be more MTG-focused and cost-effective. There's no better time than now. Be prepared for 2025’s Food as Medicine revolution.

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