Advocates, analysts and policymakers are giving mixed reviews to the Biden administration's move to let states use Medicaid funds for food.
What that looks like varies per state, but it encompasses nutrition counseling, cooking supplies and meal delivery."It's not the case that everyone enrolled in Medicaid is getting these innovative services," according to Suzanne Wikle, a Medicaid expert and senior policy analyst at CLASP.
Each state has an "identified population" that is receiving these services, such as certain pregnant people, people with certain chronic conditions, or others that are in a particularly vulnerable stage in life, Wikle says in an email. She also noted that the pilots are time-limited. Plus, millions of Medicaid enrollees could soon be facing loss of benefits, as starting April 1, states will be able to resume Medicaid disenrollments,Shyevitch tells Axios in an email that the Medicaid pilots are "welcome and exciting," but worries that CMS is "imposing seemingly arbitrary limits that minimize the impact such prescriptions can have."
He says SNAP and other benefits developed to increase food purchasing power are the foundation of addressing national food insecurity, but "caregivers need more targeted tools."
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