{"id":22238,"date":"2023-12-22T08:07:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T13:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22238"},"modified":"2023-12-22T08:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T13:07:56","slug":"how-elevance-health-plans-to-integrate-food-as-medicine-across-its-lines-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22238","title":{"rendered":"How Elevance Health plans to integrate &#8216;food as medicine&#8217; across its lines of business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Jakob Emerson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June, Elevance Health named Kofi Essel, MD, as its first food as medicine program director, signaling a paradigm shift within one of the country&#8217;s largest healthcare organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Essel is a community pediatrician by training, having most recently worked at Children\u2019s National Health System in Washington, D.C. Before that, he was the director of the culinary medicine program at George Washington University&#8217;s School of Medicine and Health Sciences.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/leadership\/how-elevance-health-plans-to-integrate-food-as-medicine-across-its-lines-of-business.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/leadership\/how-elevance-health-plans-to-integrate-food-as-medicine-across-its-lines-of-business.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" class=\"wp-image-7995\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cut-citrus.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cut-citrus.jpg 540w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/cut-citrus-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jakob Emerson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) In June, Elevance Health named Kofi Essel, MD, as its first food as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[784,12,20,200],"tags":[84,382],"class_list":["post-22238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-insecurity","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-redesign","category-health-insurance","tag-food-as-medicine","tag-food-insecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22239,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22238\/revisions\/22239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}