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Legislative Item	Posted Date
Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) Act Passed!!	December 18, 2000
Summary of IDA MNT Outcomes Study 2000	2000
Medicare’s New Medicare Health Support Program & Impact on MNT	June 16, 2005
MNT included as a core medical service under the Ryan White Care Act- please see eatright.org for more info.	July 28, 2007
Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act with new nutrition provisions:	July 28, 2007
Increased recognition of the important role of dietitians and other qualified nutrition professionals in meal planning, nutrition education, and nutrition screening, counseling and assessment Greater emphasis on the critical link between nutrition and the prevention of chronic disease Inclusion of nutrition in programs to assist family caregivers Authorization of the first independent evaluation of the OAA nutrition programs by the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB) at the Institute of Medicine, National Academies of Science. Specifically, the IOM study would include: An evaluation of the effect of nutrition programs on the health and nutritional status of program participants, prevention of participant hunger and food insecurity and the ability of participants to live independently. A cost-benefit analysis of the nutrition programs, including the potential to reduce Medicare and Medicaid costs. Recommendations for how nutrition programs may be modified to improve health outcomes, including recommendations on how to improve meal quality, client nutritional status and the role, if any, of multi-vitamin mineral supplementation.

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