For employers A new benefit. No new budget. Prado gives your associates clinician-prescribed nutrition: a dietitian-built plan and medically tailored meals delivered home every week, paid with the pre-tax HSA and FSA dollars they already hold.
The employer math
The biggest cost driver is diet. The money to treat it is already elected. 90%
of the $5.3T in US health spending goes to people with chronic conditions. The drugs are covered. The food is not.
$3,600+
a year per person for a GLP-1 paid in cash, the fastest-growing line in most pharmacy budgets.
$174B
sits in HSAs nationwide, and FSA holders forfeit an average of $422 a year.
$3,433
lower per-person healthcare spend over about six months of medically tailored meals in a Medicaid population, offsetting 98% of program cost.
Sources: CDC; CMS National Health Expenditures 2024; NovoCare and LillyDirect cash prices, 2026; Devenir 2025; EBRI; Hager et al., Nature Medicine, 2026.
What it does for you Prevent and protect. Two outcomes for your cardiometabolic and GLP-1 population, and an access model associates actually use.
✓ Prevent Nutrition therapy for pre-diabetic and GLP-1-eligible associates, as a companion to prescribing or a step before it.
✓ Protect People regain weight coming off a GLP-1 when nothing about how they eat has changed. Food protects the drug spend you are already making.
✓ Frictionless access Dietitian visits are fast to book and typically covered by the health plan you already pay for. Meals arrive at the door every week.
What your associates see
Where they already enroll. Three steps to a booked visit. 1 Find it in the portal
Marked new, next to medical and dental.
Your benefits
Dental and vision
Enrolled New this year Food as Medicine
See a dietitian, get a plan, have the food delivered.
Answer 6 questions → 2 Answer six questions
Their employer never sees the answers.
Question 1 of 6
Has a doctor told you any of these apply to you?
3 See the cost and book
Often $0 as preventive care, then pick a dietitian.
$0
Your dietitian visit is covered as preventive care under your health plan.
See dietitians who take your plan → What it takes Simple to launch. ✓ No plan amendment and no payroll integration ✓ A time-boxed pilot, with a review and decision point built in ✓ Four inputs from you: a signed agreement, a census file, comms access, and report recipients ✓ First meals arrive about four weeks after launch Data and security PHI never leaves Prado. ✓ You never receive member-level data, including who enrolled ✓ Aggregate reporting only, with small-group suppression ✓ Runs on SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA infrastructure ✓ We prepare the launch kit and associate communications For your associates
A benefit people feel every week. Built around them A plan based on their diagnosis and preferences, not a generic meal plan.
Dollars they already elected HSA and FSA money that often goes unspent, finally usable on food that treats their condition.
A real clinician A dietitian and a signed care plan, not a chatbot.
Food at the door Medically tailored meals from trusted local food merchants, delivered weekly.
Get started Put your benefits dollars to work as medicine. Thirty minutes with our team on your population, your benefits calendar, and what a pilot would look like.
Talk to our team →