Food as Medicine is emerging as a practical, evidence based strategy to improve chronic condition outcomes, advance health equity, and strengthen quality performance when integrated into care delivery. This session brings together health systems, community health centers, payers, foundations, and food partners to demonstrate how medically tailored nutrition programs can be embedded into clinical workflows and aligned with NCQA and HEDIS measures. Speakers will share concrete approaches for data integration, outcome measurement, and payer collaboration that help demonstrate value and return on investment. Attendees will gain actionable frameworks for building cross sector partnerships and operationalizing Food Is Medicine as a sustainable component of value based care.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the evidence linking Food as Medicine interventions to improved chronic condition outcomes, reduced avoidable utilization, and lower total cost of care
• Align nutrition programs with NCQA and HEDIS measures, including Social Need Screening and Intervention, diabetes and blood pressure control.
• Identify practical strategies for embedding nutrition screening and community-based referrals into EHR and clinical workflows without adding care-team burden
• Evaluate how emerging levers — the CMS Medicare GLP-1 Bridge and AI-enabled tools — position nutrition as a sustainable foundation of value-based care