Our Registered Dietitian Nutritionist partners love Diet ID for its quick, powerful diet assessment suite and elegant interface. Some, like Dr. John Gobble of Lifestyle Medicine Group in Oregon and Washington, use the platform as part of Medicare and private health insurance reimbursement for nutrition services.
Diet assessment is important not only to understand patient eating habits, but as a crucial component of reimbursable MNT sessions. As such, dietitians need a reliable, accurate method for assessing nutrition and measuring diet. Unfortunately, traditional or electronic food logs, diet recalls, and questionnaires are tedious, memory dependent, and time consuming, limiting patient consult time and engagement.
Dr. Gobble started using Diet ID in July 2019 to streamline his workflow with quick, accurate, dietary assessments that can be shared instantly with the patient’s whole healthcare team.
Dr. Gobble saves about 20 minutes per patient and has been successful in achieving a 100% reimbursement rate using Diet ID. “Dietary analysis takes up a major portion of my medical nutrition therapy (MNT) interview, a requirement for health plan reimbursement of procedure codes 97802, 97803, and S9740,” he says.
Diet ID offers a fast assessment with real time, actionable results: in just a minute or two, the tool provides an objective diet quality score using the HEI 2015 criteria, along with a detailed food group and nutrient summary. Using a “this or that” experience, patients simply select the image that is the closer match to how they eat, then get 2 more images to choose from. After a few clicks and answering a few basic questions like weight and age, Diet ID generates a personalized goal diet based on health objective and preferences, along with a detailed, customized route to optimal health.
Diet ID provides more detail, more quickly than a recall or interview, and provides metrics that relate directly to disease risk, providing important data for a personalized journey to improved health outcomes.
““The assessment needs to be time efficient and yet accurate enough to show change over time. The Diet ID assessment fits the bill. Not only does it take less time to complete than other methods, it also engages the client as we explore better eating habits using the dietary quality score provided by Diet ID. This technology will revolutionize dietary assessment.””
