Hi!
We have recently been told by our Risk Management(Lawyers!) Department that we can no longer rent breast pumps or even loan them(We have had a great loaner pump program for Moms of babies in NICU who do not have insurance and can't afford the rental fee.) They claim that we have to be a Durable Medical Equipment Company to rent pumps. We had meetings ad naseum with them, but to no avail. Medela has talked with them, but again to no avail.I think the durable medical equipment companies have complained because it takes away money from them. They charge the insurance company $75. 
Question number 1:
Are there hospitals out there who rent breast pumps who have had this issue and what have you done? 
2. Questions number two is:
At your hospital do the pediatricians do baby exams in the patient's room or in the nursery? 
If you do do them in the patient's room, what is the process(does someone go with the physician, what equipment do they take, how do they do charting?).
What is your annual birth rate.
Do you have private physicians or hospitalists(physicians hired by the hospital)
Thanks! Carol L'Esperance, Presbyterian Hospital, Albuquerque, NM

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