Inclusions and Payment

Everyday Eating offers personalised assessment, education and therapy for children and their families

Consultations provide clear advice, consistent with the most up-to-date evidence. The precise format of each session will vary as they are designed to meet the needs of individual clients.

Consultations options

Standard consultation 60 min

SUITABLE FOR:
  • General initial assessments*
  • Feeding therapy**
  • Extended review consultations***
  • Family review consultations****
*Includes detailed discussion about client’s history, initial recommendations and a summary report
**Includes systematic desensitisation (play-based activities) using tailored food hierarchy (food provided), tailored food education lesson and a summary or progress report.
***Includes review of complex client, update of goals and plan. ****Includes review of whole family and individual progress, update of goals and plan.

Short consultation 30 min

SUITABLE FOR:
  • General review consultations*
  • Dietary analysis feedback**
  • Consultation with parents/carers***
*Includes update of goals and plan, summary reports as required.
**Detailed review of nutrient intake assessment (dietary intake collected via online form).
***Communication consultations with parents/carers without the child present.

Extended consultation 90 min

SUITABLE FOR:
  • Extended initial assessment*
  • Feeding assessments**
  • Extended feeding therapy***
  • Family initial consultations****
*Includes additional time for complex clients OR detailed analysis of current nutrient intake, prior to consultation.
**Includes assessment of a child’s medical and feeding history and a detailed observation of a child's interaction with food and feeding skills. Parents/carers will be requested to bring the food with them to the feeding assessment.
***Includes additional time for feeding therapy with complex clients.
****Includes discussion about family health and wellness, dietary intake, goals and initial recommendations.

We are located in Warners Bay and offer telehealth and local home visits

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Everyday Eating is a Dietetic Practice focused on child and family nutrition. Founded by Accredited Practising Dietitian, Dr. Alecia Leonard in 2014, Everyday Eating has the vision of providing specialised and personalised nutrition education and therapy for children and their families.

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Private payment: Clients not referred on an eligible plan are required to pay as private clients, please contact us for our current fee schedule. Fees vary depending on the type of consultation required.

NDIS Funded: Everyday Eating welcomes NDIS funded clients. As NDIS service providers, we respect and comply with The NDIS code of conduct.

Participants seeing a dietitian are able to claim the cost of services from the following categories:

Core Supports – Daily Activities
Capacity Building – Improved Daily Living or Improved Health and Wellbeing.

We charge at the maximum claimable rate, as per the current NDIS price guide

Medicare:
Rebates for individual consultations are available to clients who have a chronic health condition and complex care needs being managed by a medical practitioner under a care plan or management plan.

A person can be referred for a maximum of five (5) sessions per calendar year. After this point, the client will become a ‘full-fee paying’ client.

The current Medicare rebate for dietetics services is $55.10 per session

Private health: We are registered with major private health funds. To determine if you are eligible to claim for your consultation please contact your health insurer.

We are unable to process private health rebates in our clinic. Clients are required to pay in full at the time of the consultation.

Home visits can be provided within Lake Macquarie and Newcastle areas.

Home visit consultations are billed at the same hourly rate as in-clinic consultations with the addition of a travel fee. Please contact us for travel fees.

You are requested to provide at least 24 hours notice if you need to cancel or change your appointment. Charges may apply upon failure to provide notification of cancellation.