Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Program Pilot Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5439 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5439 To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Program to test a payment and service delivery model under part A of Medicare to improve clinical health outcomes and reduce the rate of readmissions of certain individuals. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 17, 2025 Mr. McGovern (for himself, Ms. Malliotakis, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Program to test a payment and service delivery model under part A of Medicare to improve clinical health outcomes and reduce the rate of readmissions of certain individuals. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Program Pilot Act''. SEC. 2. MEDICALLY TAILORED HOME-DELIVERED MEALS PROGRAM. Part E of title XVIII of the Social Security Act is amended by inserting after section 1866G (42 U.S.C. 1395cc-7) the following new section: ``SEC. 1866H. MEDICALLY TAILORED HOME-DELIVERED MEALS PROGRAM. ``(a) Establishment.--For the 6-year period beginning not later than 30 months after the date of the enactment of this section, subject to subsection (f), the Secretary shall conduct, in accordance with the provisions of this section, a Medically Tailored Home-Delivered Meals Program (in this section referred to as the `Program') under which selected hospitals provide medically tailored home-deliver