How can I get insurance company's to cover my clients???

Question

I want to start my own business, in personal training and nutrition counseling for adults teens and children , how can I make it so that my clients can summit there bills to there own insurance company another words how can other peoples insurance cover there program with me????

Answer 1

Most likely you won't be able to do this.

If you happen to be a registered dietician or other licensed medical professional such as a nurse, you can contact the contracting department at various insurance companies.  Ask them if they contract directly with medical professionals of your specialty.  (You'd have to have a contract to be considered "in-network" for anyone's insurance.)

However, keep in mind that even if you are able to negotiate a network contract, most people's benefit plans probably wouldn't cover the services you're asking about.  Benefit plans that cover nutritional counseling are rare, and the few that I've seen are limited to specific conditions (i.e. - diabetic counseling).  

General nutritional counseling isn't something that I personally have seen on any benefit plan.  (And I've seen literally thousands of benefit plans from different employer groups through either working directly for an insurer or for a benefits consulting firm.)

But if you want to know how you'd go about seeing if you'd qualify, you should contact the professional contracting department of whatever insurances you'd like to accept.  (Again, I'd only even bother attempting this if you're a licensed medical professional like a registered dietician or a nurse.)

Answer 2

Insurance companies will not cover nutritional counseling, nor the nutritional substances, or vitamins, unless they are prescribed by a licensed physician.

Sorry!

Are you a licensed nutritionist, or just wanting to sell vitamins, etc. through one of those multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes?

Answer 3

It won't.  Only in a few special cases, if you're a registered dietician, will nutritional counseling be covered - like for diabetics, or PKU kids, that sort fo thing.