Catherine Macpherson, MS, RDN
Senior Vice President, Healthcare Strategy and Development, Chief Nutrition Officer
Addressing MA planning challenges with proven benefits
Product teams and their clinical and operational partners working on 2025 Medicare Advantage (MA) benefit planning are most likely strategizing and making decisions with lower payment increases in mind. But there is a way to meet rate challenges that benefits members and MA plans alike.
The role of nutrition in improving maternal health
Despite a heightened focus on maternal health in the past few years, rates of maternal mortality in the U.S. continue to rise. Pregnant people and new mothers are facing a health crisis, even though we have one of the world’s most advanced health care systems.
Food as Medicine: Joining forces to improve public health
Poor nutrition is a leading cause of illness in this country, associated with more than half a million deaths each year. Eating a well-balanced diet not only helps prolong our lives, but lowers the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, type 2 diabetes and many other conditions.
Tim Conroy
National Vice President, Government Healthcare Advocacy
Managing diabetes through convenient nutrition
More than 37 million people in this country are living with diabetes. They are also at a higher risk of other serious health issues or complications. Plus, health care costs for those with diabetes are more than double the costs compared to people without the condition.
The role of nutrition in healthy aging
Eating nutritious foods and getting necessary vitamins and minerals is important at any age, but a balanced diet is especially critical as we get older. Healthy eating is not only important to our physical well-being, it can also affect our mental and emotional health too.
Innovative ways states can help reduce food insecurity
No matter what part of the health care sector they work in — health plans, government agencies, community programs or policymaking — industry leaders and decisionmakers are asking the same question: How do we solve food insecurity?
John Phillips
Vice President, National Program Development
To help stop health and food inequities, start with better nutrition
Even though America is seen as a land of plenty, that’s not the case for the more than 34 million Americans who lack regular access to nutritious food — many of whom are minorities. Compounding the problem: the same minority populations that face food insecurity tend to experience health inequities, meaning they don’t have equal access to health care coverage and services and, therefore, experience worse health outcomes.