Hello!  My name is Debbie Colbert and I have been lurking on lacnet for a number of years; your information has proven very valuable in my practice.  I am the IBCLC at War Memorial Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, where fall has come upon us.  Our hospital is a very high percentage of medicaid recipients and we do about 400 deliveries per year; our numbers are growing.  Currently we have a 65% breastfeeding rate on discharge followed by about 50% continuing to breastfeed through 6 months.  I provide a full service lactation clinic and pump station; we also have a back to work program.  Our area is very fortunate to have physicians that are supportive of our lactation resources.

Recently I have begun to research how other IBCLC's perform the following for their hospitals:

1)Third party billing

2) Billing for prenatal or breastfeeding classes

3) Third party billing for pump station equipment

4) Sliding scale fee-for-service

5) Initiation of grant writing to offset items 1-4.

Please email me privately if you have any thoughts, ideas, etc. I have reviewed information that was available in the archives.

Yours in lactation,

Debbie Colbert, RNC., IBCLC





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