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Fewer Hospital Visits is Just the Start: Yousuf Ahmad on the Next Step for Food as Medicine

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AssureCare
October 14, 2026

In Pharmacy Practice News, AssureCare President and CEO Yousuf Ahmad, DrPH, weighs in on new Medicaid research showing that medically tailored meals can reduce hospitalizations and costs for high-risk members. While he calls the findings compelling, Dr. Ahmad argues the next step is proving that nutrition improves the underlying chronic disease, not just utilization. He points to fragmentation as the biggest barrier, with dietitians, pharmacists, payers, and providers working in disconnected systems, and explains how AssureCare’s NutraVance platform brings those pieces into a single workflow to make food as medicine scalable and measurable.

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Read the full interview: https://www.pharmacypracticenews.com/Clinical/Article/10-26/Medicaid-Medically-Tailored-Meals-Support-Food-as-Medicine

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Our flagship platform, MedCompass, automates care management processes, streamlines workflows, and supports informed decision-making to improve patient outcomes and reduce costs. AssureCare offers solutions across the healthcare continuum, including pharmacy support, nutrition management, comprehensive data analytics, and AI innovations.
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