Although definitions of medical nutrition therapy (MNT) have been provided in a number
of sources, they have been incomplete and nonspecific. For example, when federal legislation
(HR5662, Section 105) included MNT as a covered service under Medicare Part B, and
when MNT codes were added to the American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) 2001 (
1
,
2
), these descriptions did not reflect the scope or intricacy of nutrition care provided
by dietetics professionals. In addition, explanations of the role of dietetics professionals
in the delivery of nutrition services have not been characterized in major studies
of the care provided to Medicare beneficiaries, and the nature of nutrition care often
has not been defined by researchers. (
3
) As noted by Patricia Splett, PhD, RD, FADA, and Esther F. Myers, PhD, RD, FADA, when
they outlined a model for effective nutrition care in the March 2001 issue of the
Journal of the American Dietetic Association (JADA), nutritional care professionals need standard definitions of the elements of the
nutritional care process to assess the effectiveness and outcomes of MNT (
4
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