Hi, Carrie, it doesn't seem that this is an easy thing to accomplish.
There are so many hoops to jump through.
For example, I contacted a pharmacy who was DYING to have women come in
with medicaid prescriptions for a manual pump that the Pharmacy was
authorized BY MEDICAID to distribute to women who had a prescrption
stating " one manual breast pump", signed by a doctor, I believe any
doctor's prescription pad would be fine. Well, the moms at our WIC
program STILL could not get the pumps; some of them were in managed care
programs that had medicaid providers whose prescriptions could be filled
ONLY at specific pharmacies and this pharmacy wasn't one of them! The
manager at the pharmacy had gone out on a limb by ordering these pumps
and then the moms couldn't even get them!
So, it is possible to get medicaid to do this, but you need to be very
determined to do everything exactly right, and you need to do it with
each managed care program that runs the particular medicaid group your
patients might be in. Of course, I'm speaking from New York State, each
state may have its own particular pitfalls, uh, challenges.

Pearl Shifer, IBCLC
NYC