Consulting: Medical Nutrition Therapy

In this Section:
1.	Components of MNT and DSMT Program Consulting (pdf)
2.	Why Hire Mary Ann as a Consultant for Medicare MNT and DSMT?
3.	Her Consulting and Training Services Can Be Used in Your Organization To...
4.	Developing Medicare MNT Program
5.	Designing Outpatient MNT Clinic
6.	Training RDs on MNT Practice Guides, Reimbursement and Newest Intervention Models and Technologies
7.	Medicare's New Chronic Care Improvement Program and the New Beneficiary One Time Physical Exam
8.	Turnkey Medicare MNT Program and RD Training Workshop
9.	FAQs on Medicare Part B Medical Nutrition Therapy and Diabetes Self-Management Education Benefits
10.	A Quick Guide to the Medicare MNT and DSMES Benefit

Training RDs on MNT Practice Guides, Reimbursement and Newest Intervention Models and Technologies

Why Do RD and Billing Staff Training?

We all know that ongoing RD and billing staff training is essential for a clinical and cost-effective MNT programs, whether you are billing Medicare or private insurances. Workshops and seminars are a great starting point in developing new skills for your RDs, billers, coders, etc. However they are never sufficient by themselves.

Hands-on training for your RDs and billing staff at your own hospital-clinic-practice, is a must to help transform new advances into practice: that is, taking the newest published guidelines, ideas and findings and reformatting them into practical application and usable skills within the worksite.

Training for RDs and/or your billing staff focuses on:

Newest MNT practice guides

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 's MNT Evidence-Based Guides for Practice ( for diabetes, hyperlipidemia, etc.); these standards of care have been proven to:
- Yield positive clinical outcomes, which leads to tremendously important cost-savings and patient satisfaction outcomes
- Insure the right care, for every patient, every time

Nutrition Care Process and Model

Patient Empowerment

Newest, most effective approach to successful behavior change, PROVEN to work
Is in direct contrast to widely used "compliance" method which has been shown NOT to result in behavior change

MNT Outcomes Management System...identifying, tracking and measuring these key MNT outcomes in order to:

Increase reimbursement success
Expand MNT programs
Secure your position: Employers must see results in order to keep RDs on the payroll
- Learning/Knowledge
- Behavior Change
- Clinical
- Quality of Life
- Cost-Savings
- Patient Satisfaction

Specialized Issues

How to provide successful MNT in GROUP and in INDIVIDUAL formats, and BOTH formats at the same time
Keys to creative scheduling of group class and individual MNT appointment to increase 'show' rate and enhance learning
Blood glucose pattern management
Insulin initiation and adjustments
Documentation of MNT
- Per the research, use of the following improves documentation, which improves quality of care:
  - Standardized procedures
  - Use of structured standardized forms based on current practice guidelines
  - Training of health professionals on documentation