Table 1. Inputs for Policy Simulation Model to Estimate 1-Year and 10-Year Change in Hospitalizations and Health Care Expenditures Associated With Provision of MTMs and Net Policy Costs.

Input	Data source	Details
Annual inpatient admissions and health care expenditures stratified by insurance status	Medical Expenditure Panel Survey administered by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality15	Data source was used to identify model sample and estimate eligible population
Estimated policy effect sizes	Original meta-analysis of 5 published MTM studies that assessed associations of MTM receipt with inpatient hospitalizations and/or health care expenditures5,6,7,8,22,a	Effect sizes include pooled relative risks of inpatient hospitalizations and percentage change in health care expenditures
MTM costs from insurance contracts	Original survey to Food Is Medicine Coalition organizations4 administered from August to September 2021	Survey included questions about 2019 annual meals delivered, participants served, organization expenditures, and monthly meal costs from insurance contracts; 11 of the 15 organizations asked to complete the survey responded
Screening and referral costs	Medicare reimbursement rates for an initial medical nutrition therapy assessment by a registered dietitian nutritionist23	One-time added cost for each eligible MTM recipient in each year of the policy simulation model

Abbreviation: MTM, medically tailored meal.

^a Details are given in eTables 2 and 3 in the Supplement.