Linda writes:
many insurance companies will pay for it when prescribed by a physician.
Getting the baby's physician clued in to the immense value of donor milk is
often the hard part.

Betsy writes:
.  Perhaps in time more physicians will
write scripts for it, and more insurance companies will pay for it

and I write:
1. Many physicians don't even KNOW about donor milk, or if they've heard of
it, don't know how to go about finding a milk bank to get it.
2. That means that they also don't know how to put potential donors in touch
with milk banks either.
( I'm working on it....)
Those things need to happen in order for there to be enough milk for the
docs to write the prescriptions for and to put the pressure on the
insurance companies to spend money on something beneficial for babies that
will save health care dollars and a lot of heartache.

Gail S. Hertz, MD, IBCLC [Master of the run-on sentence]
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