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Dietitian & Nutrition billing

Accurate, compliant billing to fuel your nutritional practice's growth.

Medical Nutrition Therapy is highly dependent on time-based codes, annual visit limits and explicit referral requirements. A single oversight in unit calculation or diagnosis linking results in an immediate denial — so we make sure your time-based tracking is precise, referral mandates are met, and you're reimbursed for every counseling minute.

Services we provide for dietitian & nutrition practices

Specialty-trained coders and billers who know your workflows, payers and compliance requirements inside out.

  • Individual & group Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) billing
  • Telehealth & virtual nutrition session management
  • Intensive Behavioral Therapy (IBT) for obesity billing
  • Diabetes Self-Management Training (DSMT) claims
  • Physician referral verification & tracking
  • Benefit cap & annual visit limitation monitoring
  • Out-of-network superbill generation & patient support
  • Self-pay packages & card-on-file invoicing

Codes we manage every day

A representative sample of the CPT, ICD-10 and modifier expertise our team applies to dietitian & nutrition claims.

Common CPT codes

  • 97802MNT initial assessment, per 15 min
  • 97803MNT re-assessment, per 15 min
  • 97804MNT group, per 15 min
  • G0270, G0271MNT following additional referral
  • G0447Behavioral counseling for obesity
  • 99401–99404Preventive medicine counseling

Common diagnosis codes

  • Z71.3Dietary counseling & surveillance
  • E11.9Type 2 diabetes without complications
  • E66.9 / E66.3Obesity / overweight
  • Z68.30–Z68.45Body Mass Index (BMI) codes
  • N18.30Chronic kidney disease, stage 3

Common billing challenges we solve

  • Unit-calculation shortfalls from the 8-minute rule
  • Missing physician referrals required before MNT claims
  • Payer benefit-cap denials for annual visit limits
  • Preventive vs. medical-necessity diagnosis discrepancies
  • Telehealth place-of-service (02 vs. 10) confusion

Payers we work with

  • Medicare & Medicare Advantage (Diabetes & renal)
  • Medicaid & Managed Medicaid
  • Commercial carriers (BCBS, UHC, Aetna, Cigna, Humana)
  • Employer-sponsored wellness programs
  • HSA / FSA & patient financing

Why dietitian & nutrition practices choose Core MBS

Time-based unit coding specialists who avoid compliance flags
Proactive referral management removes admin stress
Maximized telehealth revenue with correct modifiers
Native workflows inside Practice Better, Kalix, Jane & EHRs

Let's get your revenue cycle healthy.

Send us a note for a free, no-obligation billing review — we'll show you exactly where revenue is leaking and how we'd fix it.