Often abbreviated MNT is as a nutrition-based treatment provided by a registered dietitian nutritionist.  It includes a nutrition diagnosis, therapeutic nutrition intervention and counseling for the purpose of disease management.

Who Qualifies for the Benefits?
MNT benefit is covered under Medicare for the following diagnosis: Diabetes, Gestational Diabetes and Non-dialysis kidney disease or post-transplant kidney disease.

MNT may be ordered for any patient who has a diagnosis that would benefit from nutritional counseling/intervention; however this MNT session may not be billed to Medicare or Medicaid, unless it is an approved diagnosis for the list above. Examples of diagnoses that are not covered under the MNT benefit include obesity, pre-diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension, There will be a charge to the patient for MNT and this can be applied to the patients deductible or may be covered under a wellness benefit of their insurance.  Dietitians are lobbying actively to get more diagnoses covered, but have not been successful at this time.