Consulting Services for Registered Dietitians and Healthcare Companies

I started my first nutrition private practice which included patient counseling, corporate wellness, community nutrition programs, and public relations for food along with pharmaceutical companies. My colleague and I even wrote a successful nutrition book that was ahead of its time. I sold the business to a like-minded registered dietitian in the community who carried on the legacy of the practice.

After selling the practice I wanted to share my secrets to a successful private practice, so I developed self-directed manuals and conducted workshops around the country for registered dietitians looking to start a private nutrition practice, along with individual business consulting for registered dietitians. I also developed the Jump Start Business school® entrepreneurial curriculum for university dietetics programs and dietetic internships that still use my materials. At the time, I was the only dietitian providing these extensive materials and workshops. Today, so many dietitians have followed suit.

I continued these workshops, along with my self-directed manuals, when I re-entered private practice in 2004 and throughout most of the life of my eating disorders treatment center. During my ownership and operation of the multi-disciplinary staffed Inner Door Eating Disorders Treatment Center, I attained accreditation by the Joint Commission, obtained state licensing as a partial hospitalization program and forged many insurance contracts. In addition to the program development and marketing aspects, running my treatment center prepared me to consult with similar entities and individuals looking to start this type of business.

In addition, based on my history of selling two businesses, I now consult with registered dietitians preparing to sell their private practice. I have also written business-related articles for Today’s Dietitian, along with the Nutrition Entrepreneurs and Nutrition and Dietetic Educators and Preceptors Dietetic Practice Groups (DPGs).

If you are ready to start a nutrition private practice, take your current practice to the next level or sell your nutrition private practice, I offer a digital manual, Private Practice, Getting that Jump Start® with ready to use forms that provide 14 CPEs for Registered Dietitians, along with individual consulting services to assist you to:

• Target your market and define your niche
• Develop or refine your business and marketing plan
• Hone your advisors
• Budget and price your services
• Succeed with or without insurance contracts
• Sell your nutrition private practice  

The Jump Start® Business School was created for college and university professors, along with dietetic internship directors, to implement into their dietetics curriculum. Today’s nutrition graduates don’t want to work in hospitals or nursing homes but start a private practice out of the gate…and innovative they are!

Curriculum may be used as a one semester course or as modules to fit your program. This program can easily be implemented to teach your students or interns how to write a business and marketing plan, develop a budget and determine complete requirements of their future dietetic-related business. The program comes with facilitator handbook and slide show along with one FREE student manual/workbook. Volume discounts are given for individual student manuals. Course instructor will receive respective 27 CPE credits listed below for completing the program along with the self-study assessment/evaluation.

Students will learn how to:

• Distinguish between an entrepreneur and someone who is self-employed
• Target their market and define their niche
• Develop or refine their business and marketing plan
• Hone their advisors, resources, and tools
• Budget and price their services
• Insurance reimbursement considerations
• Market their services, including website development and networking

They will also learn about other entrepreneurs in the dietetics field and how they got started.

Enhance your medical, nutrition, or behavioral healthcare business. This experienced business professional can help you with:

• Business Planning, Program Development, and Marketing Strategies
• Educational Consulting and Training
• Policies and Procedures Development
• HIPAA Compliance and Industry Regulation
• Joint Commission or CARF Accreditation Preparation
• Insurance Contracting
• Electronic Health Record Evaluation
• Billing, Coding, and Reimbursement Concerns, along with Fee for Service
• Preparation for Sale of Your Healthcare Business

In an online and virtual face-to-face manner.

Beverly also Provides Expert Testimony and Litigation Support for Attorneys

Beverly Price, CEDRD-S, C-IAYT is a leader and pioneer in providing products, workshops, and services to registered dietitians in entrepreneurship. These programs and services are based on years of actual experience of a successful registered dietitian who has started, grown, and sold multiple businesses throughout her career. Through offering these programs and services in a virtual environment, she has kept up with the advancing technology and consumer demand, including flexibility.

"I have been using Beverly’s Private Practice Getting That Jumpstart Textbook in my Nutrition Entrepreneurship Course for ten years. She provides solid advice for nutrition professionals in an easy-to-follow format. The business plan template has been extremely valuable for my students, many of whom have gone on to open or enhance their nutrition businesses. The support materials Beverly has provided for the course has made it easier for me as an instructor. She has always been helpful in answering my questions in a timely manner. I highly recommend Beverly’s products. Her expertise as a nutrition professional and business owner shine through in her materials."

 TRICIA SILVERMAN, RD, LDN, MBA, INSTRUCTOR, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA

"Beverly Price has very accurately identified those issues that will define the success or failure of a nutrition professional striving for success in the private practice/business arena. Whether the reader is in a start-up practice situation, expanding an established practice or seeking to develop a profit center within an organization or institution, this book provides insight, guidance and answers to common situations and pitfalls. Beverly’s casual, but no nonsense writing style, and creative use of automobile imagery is conducive to active reading and participation in the business and marketing assignments. This very clever approach to the intangible aspects of business sets this product apart from other, more formal attempts, to provide the same information."

 AMANDA ARCHIBALD, RD, Arch Consulting and The Genomic Kitchen, Denver, CO

"What a seminar! So valuable...No dietitian should go into private practice without it!"

 LAUREN BALKIN COHEN, MS, RD, CDN, New York, NY

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