These questions are for LCs working as a LC in a USA hospital that
also has an in-hospital pump rental station. I'm
asking because the hospital system I'm employed by has had a rental station
for several years -- set up for patient/dyad convenience when a pump was
needed at discharge (and, yes, we do inform moms of other options for rental
or use) -- but now our legal department is "requesting" changes in a system
that has worked well for about a decade. So here goes:
1. Does your legal department consider a rental pump as durable medical
equipment/DME?
2. If 1 is yes, who holds the in-hospital DME license?
3. If 2 is other than the department under which LCs fall, how do the
department dealt with this and how are rentals handled:
   a. Does your department hold the license and the rentals?
   b. Does another department hold the license but your departments handles
the rental transaction, including pump paperwork and handing pump to
parents?
       i. If your department handles the actual transaction but another
department holds the DME license, who gets any revenue (beyond what goes to
the pump company)?
   c. Does another department hold the license and also handle the entire
rental transaction, paperwork, handing pump to parents, etc.?
       i. If c, is this set up in a way that is convenient for the
patient/parent re: time, energy, etc -- e.g. no extra time to go to another
(unfamiliar) floor, location, etc.?

I think that's it! Thanks for any help you can provide!

--
Karen Gromada, MSN, RN, IBCLC, FILCA and LLLL
Cincinnati TriHealth

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