A question for lactation consultants who work in hospitals:

When you are helping a mother to initiate or maintain lactation for a
hospitalized infant (that is, you are working with the mother but the
infant is not yet going to breast due to prematurity, illness, surgery,
etc.), do you bill the mother or the infant?  Do you have the mother (who
is technically not a patient at your hospital) to register as an
outpatient and sign a consent for care?

Thanks in advance!

Ginna Wall, MN, IBCLC, Lactation Services Coordinator
University of Washington Medical Center, Mailbox 356153
1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle WA 98195
Voicemail: (206)548-6368, Fax: (206)548-7665