Nutrition Support Dietitian - Part Time

optioncare; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Option Care Health, Inc. is the nation's largest home infusion provider, offering extensive nutrition support services across multiple locations. The Registered Dietitian will design and implement clinical strategies for home nutrition support and assess patients to tailor goals.

The role requires licensure as an RD, CDR registration, and at least two years of nutrition support experience, including DME/infusion or home health exposure, to ensure compliant patient care and reimbursement accuracy.

Qualifications

• Registered Dietitian with an active license in the state of practice.
• Current Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) registration.
• Minimum 2 years of nutrition support experience.
• 1 year of DME, infusion, or home health experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintains confidentiality of patient information.
• Reviews new nutrition referrals and ensures clinical and fiscal appropriateness of orders.
• Advises patients and families on nutrition support administration and pump management.
• Documents all interventions in the patient's electronic medical record.
• Maintains knowledge of products and reimbursement guidelines to answer questions for patients and staff.
• Performs ongoing clinical review of nutrition patients per age-appropriate policies.
• Participates in performance improvement activities and outcomes measurement.
• Understands Medicare qualification and billing for parenteral and enteral nutrition therapies.

Skills

Nutrition support

Clinical documentation

Regulatory knowledge

Medicare billing

Team collaboration

Education

RD license

CDR certification

Home health experience

Tools

EMR systems

Electronic charting

Job description

Extraordinary Careers. Endless Possibilities.

With the nation's largest home infusion provider, there is no limit to the growth of your career.

Option Care Health, Inc. is the largest independent home and alternate site infusion services provider in the United States. With over 8,000 team members including 5,000 clinicians, we work compassionately to elevate standards of care for patients with acute and chronic conditions in all 50 states. Through our clinical leadership, expertise and national scale, Option Care Health is re-imagining the infusion care experience for patients, customers and team members.

Join a company that is taking action to develop an inclusive, respectful, engaging and rewarding culture for all team members. At Option Care Health your voice is heard, your work is valued, and you're empowered to grow. Cultivating a team with a variety of talents, backgrounds and perspectives makes us stronger, innovative, and more impactful. Our organization requires extraordinary people to provide extraordinary care, so we are investing in a culture that attracts, hires and retains the best and brightest talent in healthcare.

Job Description Summary: The Registered Dietitian (RD) is a qualified professional who is responsible for the development and implementation of clinical and operational strategies to promote the home nutrition support (enteral and parenteral patients) across multiple locations depending on where coverage is needed. The RD performs nutritional assessments to formulate and adjust nutritional goals for individual patients. Job Description:

Job Responsibilities

• Maintains confidentiality of patient information.
• Reviews new nutrition patient referrals and ensures clinical and fiscal appropriateness of ordered products and services.
• Advises patients and their families on nutrition support administration, water delivery, accesses and pump management.
• Documents all interventions pertaining to nutritional care in patients' electronic medical record.
• Maintains knowledge of products and reimbursement guidelines to effectively answer questions for patients, referral sources, prescribers and the organization's employees.
• Performs ongoing clinical review of nutrition patients according to age-appropriate policies.
• Participates in performance improvement activities, data collection, outcomes measurement and multidisciplinary nutrition care planning.
• Understands Medicare qualification and billing practices for parenteral and enteral nutrition therapies. Reviews and oversees documentation obtainment for justification of nutrition services as requested.
• Sets high goals and quality comprehensive services to all customers and coworkers through a team approach.
• Develops and implements written nutrition plans of care, in conjunction with physicians, healthcare personnel, patients and caregivers.
• Uses clinical data to identify and diagnose nutrition-related problems, selects appropriate interventions, tracking progress toward goals. Performs nutritional assessments using various techniques including but not limited to: estimation of nutrient intake, calculation of nutritional requirements, anthropometrics, evaluation of selected laboratory results and assessment of drug-nutrient interactions. Communicates findings of nutritional assessments to appropriate disciplines and documents with progress notes and assessments of patients' medical records.
• Obtains nutrition orders from qualified healthcare professionals in accordance with law and regulations. Completes medical documentation associated with orders as assigned (Durable Medical Equipment Information Form, etc).

Basic Education/Experience

• Registered Dietitian with a license/certification in the current state of practice, as appropriate.
• Current registration as Registered Dietitian with Commission on Dietetic Registration.
• Certified Nutrition Support Clinician.
• Licensed in state of residency (if licensure is available) and in good standing.
• Minimum of two (2) years nutrition support experience.
• One (1) year DME, Infusion or Home Health experience.
• Experiential requirements may be waived in lieu of evidence of progressive growth in and attainment of the skills necessary to perform the required duties.

Basic Qualifications

• Knowledge of regulations and legal requirements governing the industry.
• Knowledge of accreditation standards and requirements.
• Skill in following new strategies, operations and procedures.
• Extensive knowledge in nutrition support for disease- and age-specific populations.
• Knowledge of computerized information systems, including basic reimbursement applications.
• Knowledge of parenteral and enteral nutrition reimbursement: state, federal and commercial.

Language Skills

Ability to read, analyze and interpret clinical information appropriate to duties and responsibilities assigned. Ability to operate information systems, follow policy, complete required forms, and prepare reports. Ability to effectively presen