We therefore are pushing both in Medicaid and Medicare for clinicians to talk in their annual wellness visits with pediatrician with kids if they're pediatricians and with adults if they're primary care providers and general practitioners. And they get points, … 34% of all beneficiaries [of Medicare Advantage plans] are chronically ill patients. … They must give food that is nutritiously valuable to these chronic illnesses for the third of Americans who get them. And they have to meet the Dietary Guidelines which will be released next year. (24:23–24:39)
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