Lactation consultant licensing in Louisiana
No lactation-consultant licence identified in Louisiana. State law does create a registry: the Office of Public Health keeps a list of International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (R.S. 40:2213). A registry records a certification; it is not a licence.
Licence to practise
No licence identified
No effective date recorded
Medicaid billing · consultant who is not a nurse
Can bill directly
Current position
Providers per 10,000 births
21.2
Rank 35 of 51 · US overall 27.9
Where this comes from
Researched · secondary source
Dataset compiled 2026-09-11
What we found
- R.S. 40:2213 (Acts 1999, No. 627) directs the Louisiana Department of Health's Office of Public Health to keep a registry of people certified to provide lactation consultant services; to be listed, a person must hold and maintain IBCLC certification.
- ⚠ The Legislature's site timed out on every request. The statute's wording here comes from its published page as indexed, not from a direct read.
What this means if you are looking for help
Louisiana has a state registry of IBCLCs but no licence, so the title "lactation consultant" is not restricted. Check the IBCLC credential itself.
Can a lactation consultant bill Medicaid here?
Can bill directly
Louisiana lets its Medicaid managed-care plans cover outpatient lactation support in place of other care. Under the Department of Health's manual for this service (8 December 2023), a lactation support provider — including an IBCLC who is not a nurse, enrolled under taxonomy 174N00000X — can enrol and bill individual visits (S9445) and classes (S9443), with up to six sessions allowed without prior authorisation. ⚠ Each plan chooses whether to offer the service, and none is required to contract with every qualified provider.
Sources
Dataset compiled 2026-09-11. Not yet directly researched. This is a plain-language summary of public sources, not legal advice.