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Making Nutrition Your Business: Building A Successful Private Practice, Second Edition
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A complete roadmap to starting and maintaining a profitable nutrition-based business, with detailed advice on:
- Structuring, marketing and growing your business
- Money management and using technology to your advantage
- Billing, third-party reimbursement and becoming an insurance provider
- Getting clients to return, and much more.
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Making Nutrition Your Business: Building A Successful Private Practice, Second Edition
© 2024 Wolf Rinke Associates. All rights reserved for this self-directed accredited learning activity. Reproduction in whole or part without written permission, except for brief excerpts, is prohibited.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this accredited, self-directed learning program
you will be able to:
- Identify steps necessary to begin, develop and grow a private clinical practice,
- Recognize personality traits associated with being able to become a successful entrepreneur,
- Distinguish between the advantages and disadvantages of becoming your own boss,
- Identify attributes you have to meet for the IRS to consider you an independent contractor,
- Compare the advantages and disadvantages of various business structures for private practitioners,
- Write an effective business plan,
- Establish a fee structure that will meet your goals and objectives,
- Utilize various accounting practices and IRS requirements necessary to run your own business,
- Distinguish the pros and cons of being a general or specialized nutrition practitioner,
- Select a business name and your target audience,
- Choose a location for your clinical practice,
- Compare the advantages and disadvantages associated with various office options,
- Recall various office essentials, such as tools, forms, and equipment necessary to run an office,
- Utilize various tools of the nutrition trade,
- Select billing options that will ensure that you get paid,
- Apply the correct codes that are required for claims processing,
- File for reimbursement from private insurance plans, Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP,
- Use various CPT codes necessary for billing MNT,
- Recognize how insurance reimbursement is changing,
- Implement marketing strategies to attract and keep customers,
- Distinguish the pros and cons of various marketing strategies,
- Recognize the difference between marketing and publicity,
- Compare the pros and cons of various publicity strategies,
- Implement strategies to take your business to the next level,
- Recognize which customers are ready and willing to return for follow-ups,
- Implement practices that will enable you to transition from educator to counselor
ABOUT THE AUTHORS OF THE BOOK
Ann Silver, MS, RDN, CDE, CDN is in private practice and has been accepting third-party reimbursement for more than 20 years, specializing in diabetes, eating disorders and weight management. She mentors colleagues and lectures on starting a private practice and being successful in obtaining insurance reimbursement for medical nutrition therapy.
Lisa Stollman, MA, RDN, CDE, CDN was one of the first dietitians to open a private practice in New York City in the early 1980s and has helped many dietitians start and succeed in their own businesses. Her specialties include diabetes, weight management, and travel nutrition. She is a past chair of the Nutrition Entrepreneurs DPG.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE STUDY GUIDE
Wolf J. Rinke, PhD, RDN, CSP is the president and founder of Wolf Rinke Associates, a company that has provided high-quality CPE programs to nutrition professionals since 1990.
He earned a BS at Drexel University, an MS at Iowa State University, a PhD in Continuing and Vocational Education (Adult Ed) at the University of Wisconsin, and interned at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He participated in a test item writer workshop sponsored by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR).
Wolf is a past Adjunct Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management & Technology, University of Maryland, and a former Adjunct Faculty Member, School of Continuing Studies, The Johns Hopkins University.
He is the past president of the DC Dietetic Association and has been honored by the Academy with the Award for Excellence in the practice of Management; the Outstanding Dietitian of the Year Award; the Outstanding Service Award; and has delivered the Lenna Frances Cooper Lecture.
At the Academy he has served in numerous leadership roles including Chair, Scholarship Committee, DBC; Chair, Communication Committee, CDR; Chair, Area Coordinating Committee, COE; Chair, COE, and member of the Resource for Education Programs Committee; Honors Committee; CDR, Licensure Panel and Ethical Practices Task Force; CDR; House of Delegates and Board of Directors.
He is the author of more than 500 articles, numerous CPE self-study programs, and several popular books including Make It a Winning Life: Success Strategies for Life, Love and Business; Winning Management: 6 Fail-Safe Strategies for Building High-Performance Organizations; and Don’t Oil the Squeaky Wheel and 19 Other Contrarian Ways to Improve Your Leadership Effectiveness.
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