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Nutrition Care Manual

The Academy's Nutrition Care Manual is a comprehensive online resource that covers all aspects of nutrition management. NCM’s user-friendly resources include:

Disease-specific nutrition assessment, diagnosis, intervention, monitoring and evaluation recommendations.
Printable client handouts in English and Spanish.
Formulary database.

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Evidence Analysis Library: What you will find inside the Academy's Evidence Analysis Library:

Use Academy Evidence-Based Guidelines to apply cutting-edge, synthesized research to practice!

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Resources for Administrators and Payers

Which Nutrition Services Are Covered?

Medicare coverage of Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) services is permitted when furnished by a registered dietitian or nutrition professional meeting certain requirements.

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Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT)

MNT is an essential component of comprehensive health care that can improve health and quality of life for individuals with a variety of conditions and illnesses.

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Diabetes Self-Management Training (DSMT)

Diabetes Self-Management Training (DSMT), a complementary service to MNT, provides overall guidance to people with diabetes by increasing knowledge about the disease and promoting self-management behaviors.

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Resources For Billing

Diagnosis codes describing an individual's medical condition are required on claims submitted by health care professionals to third party payers.

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The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation is the world's largest charitable organization (501c3) focused on food, nutrition and dietetics. Academy Foundation is dedicated to working with the Registered Dietitian to help kids and their families eat right.
Participate in the only political action committee broadly focused on food, nutrition and health. If dietetics is your profession, politics is your business!
Through accreditation of more than 600 undergraduate and graduate didactic, dietetic technician and supervised practice programs, the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics ensures entry-level education meets quality standards.
The Commission on Dietetic Registration awards credentials to individuals at entry and specialty levels who have met CDR's standards for competency to practice in the dietetics profession.