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"It's abysmal, the state of lactation services being provided by insurance companies currently," said Susanne Madden, a founder of the National Breastfeeding Center, which last month published an unsettling assessment of the breast-feeding policies of insurers nationwide.
The Health and Human Services Department says insurers cannot deny lactation services simply because they lack trained providers in-network; they are obligated to cover one out of network.
Eighty per cent of hospitals in the United States and the United Kingdom stock Medela's pumps, and its sales increased thirty-four per cent in the two years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, which mandated coverage of lactation services, including pumps.
Insurance companies vary widely as to what kinds of lactation services they will pay for, if any.
The reality is that while there certainly are women who adore breastfeeding, and who are extremely successful at it, not every woman can make enough breast milk to breastfeed exclusively, Alison Stuebe, a maternal-fetal medicine physician and medical director of lactation services at University of North Carolina Health Care, told HuffPost.
"From a research perspective, it's important we measure how the milk is reaching the baby, because there may be differences," said Alison Stuebe, a maternal-fetal medicine physician and the medical director of lactation services at University of North Carolina Health Care.
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Under the Affordable Care Act, health insurers are required to pay for lactation counseling services and breastfeeding supplies, like pumps, except in the case of grandfathered plans.
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The video MD startup needed to add advanced scheduling within the app to accommodate the addition of both highly in-demand lactation experts and psychology services.
The biotech firm Genencor has gone so far as to provide a lactation room and the services of a lactation consultant, says Lisa Zanetto, director of human resources for R&D.
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