As healthcare companies create programs to combat food insecurity, the food as medicine concept has lately gained momentum. However, payers and healthcare systems alone shouldn’t bear the burden. Dr. Bipin Mistry, chief medical officer of Alight, contends that companies should join the initiative as well. The business collaborates with clients to offer care guidance, wellbeing solutions, and compensation administration services.
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Employers may eventually save healthcare expenses by assisting employees with their nutrition by lowering the number of hospital admissions and ER visits, according to Mistry in a new interview. His remarks come as a recent Aon analysis projects that healthcare expenditures for companies would increase 6.5% in 2023.
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