Insurance and Coverage for Colorado Lactation Care

Bringing a new baby home is a beautiful whirlwind—worrying about how to pay for feeding support shouldn't be part of it. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), most private health insurance plans are required to cover comprehensive lactation care, counseling, and equipment from pregnancy through weaning. This federal mandate recognizes that clinical breastfeeding support is essential preventative healthcare for both mother and child, ensuring you have access to the expert guidance you need without financial strain.

To make things as easy as possible, Love Lactation, LLC partners directly with The Lactation Network (TLN) and Wildflower Health. These specialized administrative billing networks handle all the complex medical paperwork and verify your specific insurance benefits for you before our first appointment. Through these strategic partnerships, I am able to seamlessly process a wide variety of major commercial health insurance policies, frequently securing complete coverage for multiple in-home visits with zero out-of-pocket expenses.

A Note on Cost Sharing and Plan Variations: While federal law mandates coverage for lactation services, individual insurance policies can vary significantly based on your specific employer group or plan structure. In some instances, specialized plans may still apply cost-sharing measures such as deductibles, co-pays, or specific calendar-year visit limits. Rest assured, I will thoroughly review all of these details for you during the pre-visit verification process. We will clearly map out your exact coverage criteria together, ensuring you are fully informed and that there are never any financial surprises along your journey.

I am in network with:

Wildflower Health

Best if you have:

Cigna Healthcare insurance logo with blue text and a green and blue abstract tree above the i.
Anthem insurance logo featuring Blue Cross and Blue Shield symbols in blue.
If you have these plans -Verify via Wildflower Health

The Lactation Network

Best if you have:

United Healthcare insurance logo featuring a blue stylized shield and company name in blue text on a white background.
Aetna insurance logo in purple text with a heart shape to the left of the company name.
First Health insurance logo featuring a heart-shaped icon and "First Health" in blue text.
The letters PNOA in blue, with the O as a medical cross, a red swoosh under the A—perfect for an insurance logo.
Logo with the word Velocity in large blue text and National Provider Network below, representing an insurance network.
Logo with "imagine" in cursive black text and "HEALTH" in uppercase light blue letters, perfect for an insurance brand.
Meritain Health insurance logo with “an Aetna company” and a purple heart symbol.
Black geometric star logo and the word curative in bold black letters, representing an insurance brand on a white background.
MultiPlan insurance logo with abstract green and blue figures next to the word MultiPlan in gray and black text.
First Choice Health insurance logo with three colored dots (green, blue, teal) to the left of the text.
If you have one of these plans-Verify via TLN The Lactation Network

Colorado State Plans

Best if you have:

Health First Colorado logo with text: Colorado’s Medicaid insurance program. In partnership to better serve you.

Colorado Medicaid and CHP+ covers lactation visits at no cost to you.

To schedule your visit, you'll just need a recommendation form completed by your healthcare provider (doctor, pediatrician, midwife, or nurse practitioner). Download the form below and send it to your provider through their patient portal. Once it's completed and returned, I'll be happy to help you get your visit scheduled.

Download the Doctor form here

If your insurance is not listed, self-pay options are available. A superbill will be provided for you to submit to your insurance company for possible out-of-network reimbursement.