Lifestyle medicine improves health outcomes by educating and equipping evidence-based interventions to treat and prevent non-communicable disease. The Business of Lifestyle Medicine offers tools and a framework that enables organizations, corporations, healthcare systems, and providers to operationalize the practice of Lifestyle Medicine. The Business of Lifestyle Medicine is the application of an intensive induction phase, followed by tapered consolidation and ongoing sustainability utilizing risk stratification and often demonstrating cost-savings. The purpose of this article was to outline some of my experiences with the Business of Lifestyle Medicine, highlight pivotal considerations when creating a Lifestyle Medicine practice, and illustrate a Lifestyle as Medicine Business Model.
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