Lactation consultant licensing in Iowa
No lactation-consultant licence in Iowa. The health-profession chapters of the Iowa Code — medicine, nursing, dietetics, midwifery and the rest — include none for lactation consultants.
Licence to practise
No licence identified
No effective date recorded
Medicaid billing · consultant who is not a nurse
Not checked yet
Not yet researched
Providers per 10,000 births
13.6
Rank 50 of 51 · US overall 27.9
Where this comes from
Checked against the state’s own law
Dataset compiled 2026-09-11
What we found
- Iowa Code Title IV, Public Health, holds the health-profession licensing chapters from 147 onward; none licenses lactation consultants (read 2026-09-11).
What this means if you are looking for help
No state licence means the title "lactation consultant" is not restricted in Iowa. Anyone may use it. That makes checking the IBCLC credential itself the thing that tells you something.
Can a lactation consultant bill Medicaid here?
Whether an IBCLC can enrol with Iowa Medicaid and bill it directly is a separate policy question from licensing, and we have only worked through 27 of 51 jurisdictions. A blank here means unchecked, not no — ask your plan directly.
Sources
- Iowa Legislature — Iowa Code Title IV chapters — read 2026-09-11
Dataset compiled 2026-09-11. Directly researched. This is a plain-language summary of public sources, not legal advice.