To all of you who desperately want information on LC earnings...It doesn't
matter how much LCs earn next door to you or across the world from you. You
must determine your earnings based on the cost of service delivery and what
you need to earn to make a living. I worte an article that appeared in the
globe based on this approach that tells you how to do the figuring. Plus
their are nmerous books abvailable in the US for US Lcs that tell you how to
do the figuring.

Basically, what most LCs earn is underpricing, that's all I can say in a
public forum.

Please be wise, and make sure you cover your costs and earn a decent wage in
the meantime.

I hope people begin to understand this concept. Behave like business people,
do research like business people, draw on your experience as a spouse/mother
of running your houshold and the great mystery of how much to chrage will
disappear. It is just simple math.

As for hospital billings, the hospital billing department has all the
expertise you could hope for. Go talk to them. They had to set up billing for
every other department in the building, LActation department is no different.

Alison Hazelabaker
The Third PArty Reimbursement Chair who doesn't think profit and business are
four letter words.