This field scan of the Produce Prescription field highlights current trends and key opportunities for future growth.

An affordable housing program in Baltimore generates between $1.30-$1.92 of “social return” in the community for every dollar invested annually.

Literature review examines the roles and contributions of community health workers in improving dementia care.

Study explores how select state Medicaid agencies design consumer engagement approaches, and identifies lessons on the impact of these approaches.

A review of existing literature finds that medical respite care reduces hospital and emergency department visits, increased use of outpatient care, and leads to overall cost savings.

An integrated community health program demonstrated a cost savings of over three million dollars.

Analysis of recent and projected growth of expanded supplemental benefits offered by Medicare Advantage plans — such as meals, transportation, and in-home support services.

Evaluates the evidence on interventions for people living with dementia, their care partners, and caregivers to help identify what interventions are ready for broad implementation.

Suggests that community-based organizations are responding to Medicaid redesign efforts that prioritize social determinants of health by adopting practices similar to health care organizations.

Enhanced primary care for adults with serious mental illness led to increases in primary care visits and health screenings as well as decreases in inpatient utilization.

Examines the early implementation of Medicare Advantage expanded supplemental benefits, along with policy considerations to promote plan adoption and beneficiary access to these benefits.

Provides an overview of home-based medical care models, the patients that they serve, and their robust evidence base.

Embedding a health navigator in a senior housing community improved residents’ sense of physical, mental, and social well-being.

The Green House model for longer term care residents was associated with reduced COVID-19 death rates compared to traditional nursing homes.

Contingency management shows lasting effectiveness in promoting substance use abstinence.

Demonstrates that Housing First programs and associated support services reduced health care related expenditures for the Massachusetts Medicaid program.

Initiative successfully implemented several evidence-based and promising addiction care models across multiple medical settings, including an inpatient addiction consult team, a low-threshold bridge clinic, peer recovery coaches, and office-based addiction treatment nurses.

Health care organizations can use population-level data sources about the experiences of people with disabilities to improve care.

Outlines practical steps for implementing flexible supplemental benefit offerings in Medicare Advantage plans.

Mixed methods study assessed implementation successes, challenges, and outcomes of Medicaid behavioral health homes in Maine.