‘Food is medicine’ meets inflation: Hospitals caught in federal squeeze

Becker’s Hospital Review – Friday, May 15, 2026
By Paige Twenter

HHS is asking the nation’s hospitals to serve healthier food and directed them this spring to align their menus with new federal nutrition guidelines. But a new CMS response obtained by Becker’s suggests the pressure may be more voluntary than it first appeared.

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