From Prescription to Plate: Unlocking Hospital Food and FSAs for Healthy Food (Invite only)

Integrating food and nutrition into health care requires meeting people where they are. At the individual level, flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts offer a largely underutilized mechanism for financing healthy choices, often before illness. Yet significant barriers remain in expanding their scope and uptake. At the institutional level, hospitals and other health systems increasingly recognize the food they serve as a clinical tool, embedding nutrition support into care pathways and leveraging community presence to address food-related health needs at scale. This session will address these upstream and downstream intervention points, exploring what it will take to build the policy, financial, and institutional infrastructure to make food a reliable, reimbursable part of health care.