Corrections
Every factual error we have found on this site, what it said, and what it says now. Newest first. Entries are never removed.
The site ran as a public preview before launch, and these were on it. Each was found by our own checks. Where the same kind of mistake could happen again, the fix includes a check that runs on every build. How every figure is produced.
Said: Both gave the number of states that license lactation consultants as a word typed by hand, written before Massachusetts was found, so both undercounted by one.
Now: Both read the count from the licensure dataset. Massachusetts is shown as reported and not yet verified against its statute.
Said: The number of mistakes on the national tracker disagreed with the list printed beside it, and the list counted Washington — which runs a voluntary state certification and is rightly absent from a licensure list.
Now: The number is computed from the same list it describes, Washington is described separately, and the build fails if a printed count and its list ever disagree.
Said: A two-state list was printed without its “and”, so North Carolina’s reason for having no Medicaid billing route read as though it were Florida’s.
Now: Every list of states is joined by one shared function, each state’s reason sits in its own table row, and the build fails on a glued list.
Said: The Medicaid position was labelled as inactive eight months after its legal effective date of 1 January 2026, on a source written before that date.
Now: It reads “legislated — not verified live”: we know the law’s start date, and we have not confirmed the benefit is being paid.
Said: California, New York, Tennessee and Vermont were labelled as billable only under supervision. That describes Kansas, where a lactation consultant must be employed by a physician group, and not the others.
Now: The label reads “only through another provider”, which is true of each state it is applied to, with each state’s own reason printed beside it.
Said: A sentence gave the share of US births covered by Medicaid, with no source on the page.
Now: Removed. It returns only with its source beside it.
Said: The share of lactation providers working in a state that licenses them was shown as 4.7%, computed from a copy of each state’s status that had gone out of date.
Now: It is computed from the live licensure record at build time, which gave 7.3% on the day of the fix.
Said: New Mexico was described as licensing only IBCLC-certified consultants — the same mistake the national tracker makes.
Now: New Mexico licenses a lactation care provider through its Board of Nursing and accepts several national certifications, and the page says so.