[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 81 (Wednesday, May 13, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H3404]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        MEDICALLY TAILORED MEALS

  (Mr. McGOVERN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, last week in Massachusetts, I had the 
pleasure of speaking at the AMPL Institute's annual convening to learn 
about the latest research and hear directly from experts in the field 
of medically tailored meals.
  Based within Community Servings, the largest nonprofit provider of 
medically tailored meals in New England, the AMPL Institute combines 
pioneering research, policy work, and provider education aimed at 
transforming the healthcare system so that medically tailored nutrition 
becomes a universally accessible standard of care.
  The incredible work of Community Servings is what got me interested 
in, and now passionate about, expanding the reach of medically tailored 
meals. They are the reason I have introduced a bipartisan bill to pilot 
coverage of MTMs in traditional Medicare at hospitals across the 
country.
  Medically tailored meals have the power to transform lives. They 
improve health outcomes, support vulnerable patients, and strengthen 
the Food Is Medicine movement.
  It is time to pass my bipartisan bill, the Medically Tailored Home-
Delivered Meals Program Act, to really advance the Food Is Medicine 
movement in this country.

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