Medical foods could provide $1.3 bil. Medicare savings by 2002 -- KPMG Marwick study.
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
MEDICAL FOODS COULD PROVIDE $1.3 BIL. MEDICARE SAVINGS BY 2002, according to a study conducted by the Barents Group of KPMG Peat Mar-wick. "We estimate that consistent and appropriate use of medical nutrition therapy for select Medicare beneficiaries would have saved the nation's health care system over $150 mil. in 1994, and would result in a projected seven-year savings of $1.3 bil. between the years 1996 and 2002," the executive summary of the study states.
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