In a message dated 5/31/0 10:12:17 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

<< I have had success in assisting other Moms to receive insurance coverage
for

long-term pump rental.  I ask the Mom to get a written prescription from the

infant's doctor that the infant was "to be fed using the infant's mother's

expressed breast milk".  >>

Catherine,
We have had the same outcome in my area. We have often managed to get pumps
payed for when babies were sick, in NICU, etc so long as the neonatologist
wrote a scrip for the EBM. I think it is worth trying anywhere, b/c it does
send a message about the importance of breastfeeding to insurers.
Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA

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