Registered dietitian nutritionists are facing a nearly 8.5% cut in their Medicare Part B Payments. Set to take effect on January 1, 2023, the payment reduction is a combination of two separate cuts: A 4.42% cut created by a Medicare budget neutrality rule that requires...

On July 27, 2022 the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor passed the Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act out of committee. This bill included crucial Academy priorities to address nutrition security for our nation’s children. Now, the Academy calls...

With the recently introduced Healthy Meals, Healthy Kids Act, Congress has an opportunity to build upon the success of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act and consider lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic to continue to strengthen and expand the reach of child nutrition...

The Health Equity and Accountability Act is an omnibus piece of legislation introduced each Congress by the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. HEAA encompasses a wide range of issues that impact our...

Nearly 9 million women of childbearing age are not covered by the Break Time for Nursing Mothers law, the federal provision that requires break time and a private space for breastfeeding employees to pump during the workday.Passage of the Providing Urgent Maternal...

The U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations released its draft of the Fiscal Year 2023 allocations for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Although the committee supports an investment towards maintaining the scientific integrity of the Dietary Guidelines by providing...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the increasing rate of natural disasters continue to reveal dangerous gaps in the emergency care systems serving families with breastfeeding babies. Infants are a highly vulnerable population, yet caregivers are too often left without access to...

The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated the need to provide healthy school meals, especially given its disproportionate impact on people with diet-related diseases and communities of color. Investing in school nutrition programs to help establish life-long healthy eating...

The bipartisan, bicameral Treat and Reduce Obesity Act (H.R.1577, S.596) has been reintroduced for the 117th Congress. TROA would expand the providers and programs that could deliver intensive behavioral therapy for obesity within Medicare Part B and would provide...

Senators Susan Collins (Maine) and Gary Peters (Mich.) and Representatives Robin Kelly (Ill.) and Fred Upton (Mich.) recently introduced the Medical Nutrition Therapy Act of 2021 (S. 1536/H.R. 3108), which would expand coverage of medical nutrition therapy (MNT) in Medicare...