Hi all-

I have just learned that one of the managed care plans with a medicaid
contract won't pay ANY of the DME providers in our city for an electric
breast pump.  If a woman comes with a prescription from her MD, she either
walks away with a manual pump or the single hospital that rents medicaid
pumps at all eats the cost.  (As we have been doing at MilkWorks...but I
assumed the BIG hospital would be an approved provider for this HMO!)

Anyway...I am amazed, and am going to start by calling the Head of Medicaid
Managed Care at HHS Dept.  Does anyone have a list of published data handy
proving the ineffectiveness of a manual pump for bringing in or preserving a
milk supply I can wave at him?

Thanks-

Kathy Leeper, MD, IBCLC
Medical Director
MilkWorks, a nonprofit breastfeeding center providing consultations,
education, support and related supplies in Lincoln, NE

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