Boston Medical Center doctors to write prescriptions for electricity bills
BOSTON – A unique program in Boston will allow people to pay their electricity bill with a prescription.
Doctors at Boston Medical Center will soon have that power to help patients in need pay their utilities through what it calls a first-in-the-nation initiative.
The hospital system is using profits from its new solar panels to help low-income households with a program called Clean Power Prescription.
Boston Medical Center said it's a new holistic approach to health care because socio-economic factors can have such a big impact on someone's life expectancy.
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