{"id":190887,"date":"2026-05-13T05:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190887\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:04:16","slug":"pennsylvania-budget-proposes-900k-for-food-is-medicine-program-to-aid-medicaid-patients-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/190887\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania budget proposes $900K for &#8216;Food Is Medicine&#8217; program to aid Medicaid patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A pilot program aims to put healthy food on the table for patients with chronic health conditions in the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">State and local leaders visited Geisinger&#8217;s Fresh Food Farmacy along West Olive Street in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Scranton\u00a0;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Scranton&amp;nbsp&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Scranton\u00a0<\/a>as part of a push for funding for the &#8216;Food is Medicine&#8217; program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It provides nutritious and medically-tailored meals to Medicaid recipients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Geisinger Population Health and Quality Vice President Allison Hess says, &#8220;Just to be able to see the programs, it&#8217;s important for them to understand how these programs not only help support our patients who are food insecure, but also really have a clinical impact and are helping with healthcare outcomes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Governor Josh Shapiro&#8217;s budget includes $900,000 for the &#8216;Food Is Medicine&#8217; program. Pennsylvania&#8217;s budget is due by June 30th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pilot program aims to put healthy food on the table for patients with chronic health conditions in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85052,8532,28,30,29,67713,85051,85050],"class_list":["post-190887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-chronic-health-conditions","tag-healthy-food","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pilot-program","tag-president-allison-hess","tag-west-olive-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}