Launching: Winter 2025
Type: Medicaid
Program Goal: The main goal is creating a meaningful reduction in food insecurity and delivering an incredible experience to receive a high NPS as well as overall goals of patients lowering their BMI.
Target Population: This is an expansion of the Elevance MO. This group of patients will likely see you for chronic condition management and also have one or more social determinants of health (SDOH) concern.
States: Missouri
RD Requirements:
Health Plan Credentialing | State Medicaid Enrollment | Foodsmart Credentialing Requirements | Special Certification Must have one of these for the 1/1/26 expansion. |
No | Yes– MO medicaid enrollment is required
| Medallion Credentialing Application, Copies of CDR, license in home state and where pt resides, CV | *CDR Certificate of Training in Obesity for Peds and Adults
*CDR Specialist Certification in Obesity and Weight Management (CSOWM)
*CDR Adult Weight Management Certificate of Training
*CDR Childhood and Adolescent Weight Management Certificate of Training
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You will see Elevance MO-Population Health in FFD under the “Program” section.
Benefits Overview:
Video Required
| # of Allowed Visits per year
| # of Allowed Units per Visit
| Schedule Cadence
| Billing Codes |
No | 2 | 4 | 2nd Visit: 1 week after initial
Other Visits: Every 3-4 weeks and must be clinically necessary | Initial: 97802 Follow Up: 97803 |
Nutriquiz | SNAP Required
| Risk Assessment Required | Find Help |
Required at two visits. MUST screen for food insecurity. | Must indicate patient current SNAP status on FFD (enrolled/applying/ etc). If a patient is not enrolled, help the patient apply for SNAP.
| No | At least one referral required on FindHelp |
Food Benefits:
Foodsmart Bucks | Foodboxes/MTM | Food Selection Instructions |
$25 after their first 2 visits. (FS Bucks will not reset in the new year)
Visits must be scheduled within 6 months of each other. | None | Patients will use Foodsmart Bucks through Instacart. |
It is important that you close your charts within 12 hours of the visit start time. If charts are not closed the patient will not receive their Foodsmart Bucks.
Extra Information:
Collect patient reported data and document values in FFD.
Height
Weight
Blood Pressure
HbA1C
LDL
HDL
If your patients haven’t been to their doctor in the last year encourage them to set up a visit to get yearly lab work done.
Helpful Programs:
Sample Visit Topics:
Visit Number | Sample Topics | Must Complete |
1 | Get to Know, NutriQuiz (baseline measurements + reminder to get lab work done), Food Insecurity Screening, Introduction to Foodsmart Program | NutriQuiz (initial biometrics) and Screen for Food Insecurity |
2 | SNAP or WIC (if applicable) and 1 Find Help Referral | |
3 | Foodsmart Program Modules | Updated biometrics |
4 | Grocery shopping on a budget Retake NQ + Food Insecurity Screening in FFD. | NutriQuiz and Screening for Food Insecurity) Updated biometrics |
5 | Budget Friendly Staples | Updated biometrics |
6 | Saving money on proteins + produce | NutriQuiz and Screening for Food Insecurity (update labs if pt has) |
Please see the following link of Overview of Health Plans for info on all health plans.