Diëtisten Midden Nederland

What Diëtisten Midden Nederland does

Diëtisten Midden Nederland is a Dutch primary-care dietitian practice founded on 1 January 2008 by Laura Hilhorst and Ageeth Menthen, operating from a postal address in Eemnes and serving the midden Nederland region. It delivers individualized dietary counseling across more than 25 clinical indications including Diabetes Mellitus (Type I, Type II, and gestational), COPD, cardiovascular disease, eating disorders, food hypersensitivities, gastrointestinal disorders (including FODMAP-based therapy), kidney disease, oncology, malnutrition, pediatric overweight, and general wellness. The practice is staffed by approximately 9-11 dietitians and interns with differentiated specializations (pediatric, sports, eating disorders, Turkish-cultural, oncology) and serves patients through a network of 20+ embedded consultation locations within medical centers and GP practices across Amersfoort, Utrecht, Houten, Soest, Blaricum, IJsselstein, Maarssen, Schalkwijk, and Lunteren. Patients can self-refer under Directe Toegankelijkheid Diëtetiek (DTD, in effect since 2011) or arrive via GP referral, with consultations also offered remotely via Microsoft Teams video, telephone, email, and home visits for immobile patients.

The underlying technology stack is modest and operationally focused rather than product-led: Evry handles appointment scheduling and digital administration, Microsoft Teams supports video consultations, and Praktijkaanmelding.nl provides online self-service booking. No proprietary platform, AI/ML capabilities, or data assets are disclosed. The practice is structurally integrated into the Dutch healthcare ecosystem through membership in the NVD (Nederlandse Vereniging van Diëtisten) and DCN (Diëtisten Coöperatie Nederland), partnerships with Voedingscentrum and Artrose Instituut Nederland (with dietitians co-located at Artrose locations in Amersfoort, Maarssen, and Utrecht), and ketenzorg (care-chain) coordination for Diabetes, COPD, and cardiovascular patients.

The business model is a fee-for-service clinical practice reimbursed primarily through Dutch basic health insurance (3 hours of dietary counseling per calendar year, subject to deductible) plus supplementary insurance, with contracts in place with all Dutch health insurers. First consultations run 90 minutes (45 min face-to-face plus 15 min documentation and 30 min indirect time) at approximately €120, and follow-ups are 30 minutes at approximately €40, with a €22-per-15-minute self-pay rate for uninsured patients or no-shows without 24-hour cancellation. Secondary revenue streams include transaction-style coordination of drink and tube feeding products and GLI (Gecombineerde Leefstijlinterventie) group education. The practice is privately held with no external investors, no parent company, and no funding rounds disclosed, having grown organically from two co-founders to its current scale over 16 years.

Name

Diëtisten Midden Nederland

Legal name

Diëtisten Midden Nederland

Website

https://dietistenmn.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Diëtisten Midden Nederland is a privately held Dutch primary-care dietitian practice, founded in 2008 and serving midden Nederland through 20+ embedded clinic locations and roughly 9-11 dietitians. It provides reimbursed dietetic consultations for chronic and general-health indications, with contracts across all Dutch health insurers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Dietetics and Nutrition Services

NAICS

Diet and Weight Reducing Centers (812191)

SIC

Services-Home Health Care Services (8082)

akta.pro primary industry

Medical Nutrition Therapy (Registered Dietitian) (HSADAFAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Catheter, Tracheostomy & Enteral Feeding (Tube Feeding) Home Care (HSABACAG)

Keywords

• Dietary counseling services
• Medical nutrition therapy
• Chronic disease management
• Primary care dietetics
• Weight management programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Eemnes

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices21 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Dietetic consultations reimbursed by health insurance: Primary revenue stream from consultations reimbursed through Dutch basic health insurance (3 hours per calendar year) and supplementary insurance. Practice has contracts with all Dutch health insurers.
2. Medical nutrition products (drink and tube feeding): Arranges drink and tube feeding products for patients when medically indicated, handling authorization and coordination with suppliers or pharmacies.
3. Ketenzorg (care chain) consultations: For patients with Diabetes, COPD, or cardiovascular risk in certain areas, care chain consultations are available which may be reimbursed differently from standard insurance.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Diëtisten Midden Nederland is a primary-care dietitian practice that provides personalized dietary counseling and nutrition therapy for over 25 medical conditions and general wellness needs. Services are delivered by a team of specialized dietitians across 20+ embedded clinic locations in medical centers and GP practices, supplemented by telephone, video, email, and home-visit consultations. The practice also coordinates care chains (ketenzorg) for chronic disease patients and arranges medical nutrition products such as drink and tube feeding.

Product overview

Diëtisten Midden Nederland is a dietetics practice (diëtistenpraktijk) offering personalized nutrition and dietary counseling services across multiple locations in central Netherlands. The practice operates as a unified service rather than a platform with separate products. Services include individual diet therapy consultations (in-person at various medical centers, phone consultations, email consultations, and video consultations via Microsoft Teams), home visits, drink and tube feeding services, and care chain coordination (ketenzorg) for patients with chronic conditions like diabetes, COPD, and cardiovascular disease. The practice employs multiple dietitians with various specializations and accepts patients without physician referral through Directe Toegankelijkheid Diëtetiek (DTD).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Individual dietary counseling (in-person) In-person individual dietary counseling delivered by specialized dietitians at 20+ clinic locations embedded in medical centers and GP practices across midden Nederland. Covers 25+ conditions including diabetes, COPD, cardiovascular disease, eating disorders, food allergies, weight management, and pediatric nutrition. First consultation: 45 minutes consultation + 15 minutes documentation + 30 minutes indirect time = 90 minutes total. Follow-up: 30 minutes. Reimbursable from Dutch basic health insurance (3 hours/year).
• Telephone consultations Phone-based dietary consultations for quick questions, averaging 15-30 minutes. Patients can leave voicemails when calling outside office hours. Billed at the same per-15-minute rate when not reimbursable.
• Video consultations (Microsoft Teams) Online dietary counseling delivered via Microsoft Teams for patients who prefer remote appointments or cannot travel to physical clinic locations. Same insurance reimbursement structure as in-person consultations.
• Email consultations Email-based dietary advice for quick questions regarding diet recommendations, with 15 minutes counted per consultation.
• Home visits House calls for less or non-mobile patients, with an additional home visit surcharge applied on top of the regular consultation rate.
• Ketenzorg (care chain) dietary counseling Integrated care chain coordination for patients with Diabetes Mellitus, COPD, or cardiovascular risk, working with multiple healthcare providers within care chains. Reimbursement differs from standard health insurance coverage.
• Group education (GLI - Gecombineerde Leefstijlinterventie) Combined lifestyle intervention group programs for overweight and obese patients, including structured education modules on nutrition and lifestyle modification.
• Medical nutrition products (drink and tube feeding) Arrangement of drink and tube feeding products for patients when medically indicated, including handling of authorization and coordination with suppliers or pharmacies.

Quantifiable outcome

• 3 hours of dietary counseling per year covered by basic Dutch health insurance
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• VoedingscentrumcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVoedingscentrum (Dutch Nutrition Center) is the national public health organization providing authoritative nutrition information. Diëtisten Midden Nederland likely references their guidelines and materials for patient education.
• NVD (Nederlandse Vereniging van Diëtisten)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDutch Association of Dietitians is the professional body for dietitians in the Netherlands. Membership provides professional development, guidelines, and representation.
• DCNcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDiëtisten Coöperatie Nederland (DCN) is a cooperative of dietitians. Membership offers administrative support, collective insurance negotiations, and professional development.
• Artrose Instituut NederlandcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArthritis Institute Netherlands provides specialized arthritis treatment. Diëtisten Midden Nederland has dietitians stationed at Artrose Instituut locations in Amersfoort, Maarssen, and Utrecht providing nutritional counseling for arthritis patients.
• St. AntoniusminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerSt. Antonius Hospital is a major healthcare provider in the region. Partnership may involve referral pathways or collaboration in patient care.
• HUSminorOthersHealthcare provider organization in the region.
• Gho GominorOthersRegional healthcare or wellness organization.
• DiamuraalminorOthersHealthcare provider network or organization.
• Zorg in HoutencoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorHealthcare coordination organization in Houten. Diëtisten Midden Nederland operates multiple locations within Zorg in Houten's network of medical practices.
• MolenkidsminorOthersPediatric healthcare provider or program.
• All Dutch Health InsurerscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorContracts with all Dutch health insurance companies (zorgverzekeraars) ensure that patients can claim reimbursement for consultations. This is essential for patient access and practice revenue.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Dieettheek (Dieet & Leefstijl Groep): Multi-location Dutch first-line dietitian practice network offering individual consultations, group education and GLI across multiple regions. Comparable because it competes for the same insured Dutch patients, uses the same house-style consultation model, and is contracted with the same Dutch health insurers as DMN.

Others

• Voedingscentrum (Dutch Nutrition Centre): Public Dutch authority providing authoritative nutrition information, guidelines, and consumer-facing tools. Comparable because DMN cross-references its guidelines for patient education and it materially shapes the evidence base for the dietary counseling DMN sells, acting as an ecosystem enabler for the practice.
• Coöperatie DCN (Diëtisten Coöperatie Nederland): Dutch cooperative of dietitians that provides collective insurance negotiations, administrative support, and professional development. Comparable because Diëtisten Midden Nederland is itself a DCN-affiliated practice; DCN represents the same primary-care dietitian model at scale, including multi-practice contracting and back-office functions.
• NVD (Nederlandse Vereniging van Diëtisten): The Dutch professional association for registered dietitians, setting clinical guidelines and lobbying on reimbursement. Comparable as the organizing body for the same clinical dietetic profession DMN operates in, whose policy decisions and quality frameworks directly shape DMN's service scope and reimbursement terms.
• ZorgkaartNederland ( Patiëntenfederatie Nederland): National Dutch healthcare provider rating platform where DMN is listed. Comparable as a discovery and trust layer for Dutch dietetic patients, functioning as a distribution and review channel analogous to those DMN relies on for top-of-funnel patient acquisition.

Emerging players

• Lifestyle4Health: Dutch lifestyle intervention organization delivering combined exercise and diet programs for chronic disease, often overlapping with GLI funding. Comparable because it competes for the same insured chronic-care lifestyle reimbursement and is occasionally co-delivered with dietitian consultations like DMN's Kids in Beweging program.
• Vereniging Arts en Leefstijl: Dutch physician-led lifestyle medicine network promoting GLI referrals and combining lifestyle interventions with primary care. Comparable because it sits upstream of DMN in the GP-referral funnel and channels insured chronic-disease patients toward dietetic programs such as the ones DMN delivers.
• Artrose Instituut Nederland: Specialist Dutch clinic for osteoarthritis patients where DMN stations dietitians. Comparable as a healthcare partner that hosts dietitian consultations inside its premises, addressing chronic-disease nutrition as part of a multidisciplinary care pathway similar to DMN's ketenzorg integrations.

Broad incumbents

• Nutricia (Danone): Large Dutch medical nutrition supplier (oral nutritional supplements, tube feeds) that DMN itself coordinates prescriptions with. Comparable because it operates at scale on the same medical nutrition therapy domain DMN prescribes into, while DMN manages the clinical dietary counseling and product authorization steps.

Regional players

• Diëtistenpraktijk Almere / Flevoland: Regional Dutch primary-care dietitian practice serving patients in a neighboring province with similar in-person, telephone, and video consultation formats. Comparable because it targets the same insured Dutch primary-care dietetic market with the same DTD self-referral pathway, just in an adjacent region from DMN's Utrecht-area footprint.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/DietistenMiddenNederland
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/dietisten-midden-nederland

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

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