Your Kitchen · Food as Medicine
YourKitchen
For Health Plans · Employers · Managed Care
The nutrition benefit members actually use — and the savings you can measure.
A Food-as-Medicine and SDOH benefit that activates a member's own support network to deliver nutritious meals during the highest-risk windows: postpartum, post-discharge, active treatment, eldercare, and loss.
The value chain
How a warm meal becomes a lower cost of care
The mechanism payers care about, in one line: the right food at the right moment keeps members out of the emergency department and the hospital.
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Right food, right window
Nutritious meals during high-risk seasons
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Members engage
Meals from loved ones get used
3
Healthier behavior
Better nutrition, less stress, adherence
4
Fewer avoidable events
Lower ED visits & readmissions
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Lower total cost of care
+ stronger quality & Star measures
Why this benefit works when others don't
Engagement is the prerequisite for savings
A benefit nobody uses saves nothing.
Most food benefits fail on utilization — members never activate them. YourKitchen's meals come from the people who already love the member: family, friends, faith community, coworkers. That's why order value runs ~40% above standard meal-delivery benefits and why members actually turn it on. No medically-tailored-meal vendor can replicate a member's own village — and engagement is the difference between a benefit on paper and outcomes you can bank.
The evidence base
What Food-as-Medicine research shows
Published results for medically-oriented food interventions in Medicaid and Medicare Advantage populations. YourKitchen operates in this category as the engagement layer — and measures your cohort against these benchmarks.
49%
fewer inpatient admissions among members receiving medically tailored meals; 16% lower total healthcare costs.
Center for Health Care Strategies
~31%
reduction in hospitalizations in a 2026 Massachusetts Medicaid study — with meal costs nearly fully offset by savings.
Nature Medicine, 2026 · Tufts / Community Servings
$1.57
saved for every $1 invested for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions, via fewer readmissions.
Bipartisan Policy Center
An honest framing. These figures are for dietitian-designed medically tailored meals — a clinical cousin of what YourKitchen delivers. We present them as the category's evidence base, not our own proven results. YourKitchen's role is to drive the engagement that makes these outcomes achievable, and to measure your population's actual utilization, satisfaction, and utilization-avoidance in-program.
The ROI model
Model the program against your population
Set your own assumptions. Savings are modeled on published Food-as-Medicine evidence and concentrate in your high-risk, diet-sensitive members — adjust every input.
8,250
Engaged high-risk members
$16.5M
Modeled annual savings
Every $1 in platform fee models to $18 in avoided healthcare cost.
Illustrative model for discussion, not a guarantee. Savings depend on population risk, activation, and clinical targeting, and are validated against your cohort's in-program data.
Member experience
One tap after every delivery
A soft-touch pulse the member answers in a single tap — feeding patient-reported outcomes your plan can report on, without survey fatigue.
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96%
Ease of use
"was it simple"
🙂
+18
Mood lift
vs. baseline
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4.9
Food quality
avg rating
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94%
Delivery
on-time, warm
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92%
Was it helpful
"yes, this helped"
Why it matters to you: ease, mood, food quality, delivery, and helpfulness roll up into member-experience and PRO measures a plan needs for CAHPS, HEDIS, and Star-rating narratives — captured continuously, at the moment the meal arrives, not in an annual survey.
Clinical nutrition protocols
Gate the menu to the condition
Assign a nutrition protocol to a member and their restaurant catalog narrows to compliant options — steering choices toward the guidelines that manage their condition.
Heart-healthy · Low-sodium
Target: blood pressure
DASH-aligned meals; sodium ceilings; caps high-salt items from the catalog.
Low-cholesterol
Target: cholesterol / cardiac
Lean proteins, reduced saturated fat; flags fried and heavy-dairy options.
Diabetic-friendly · Low-glycemic
Target: blood sugar / A1C
Carb-aware meals; limits added sugar and refined-starch entrées.
Renal-supportive
Target: kidney / CKD
Manages sodium, potassium, and phosphorus loads in eligible options.
How it works: Care manager assigns a protocol at enrollment → the member's catalog gates to compliant restaurants and meals → every send is checked against the protocol → the plan sees a protocol-compliance rate per member and per population.
94%of meals sent met the member's assigned nutrition protocol (sample population)
The model
Priced to scale, funded through existing pathways
Platform access
$0.75 / member / month
A predictable per-member-per-month fee for the full platform — provisioning, member management, delivery coordination, surveys, and reporting. Scales cleanly from a pilot cohort to a full book of business.
Food-as-Medicine subsidy
Pass-through + take rate
When the payer funds meals for targeted members, food flows through the platform with a transparent take rate — turning a covered benefit into measurable utilization, at an order value ~40% above standard delivery.
Medicaid managed care — In Lieu of Services (ILOS) and value-added services for nutrition supports
Section 1115 demonstration waivers — active in ~19 states for nutrition-related HRSN benefits
Medicare Advantage supplemental benefits — SSBCI and post-discharge meal benefits
Employers & private plans — the fastest-growing funding path as the field diversifies beyond Medicaid
Accountability
Everything you'd report on, exportable
Utilization & reach
Activation, meals delivered, distribution by region, condition, and care context — the equity story a plan is accountable for.
Outcomes & experience
On-time rate, protocol compliance, satisfaction, mood, and helpfulness — PRO data ready for HEDIS, CAHPS, and Star narratives.
Audit & grant reporting
Every enrollment, extension, and archive logged with user and timestamp; one-click board and funder exports.