Lactation consultant licensing in Maine
No lactation-consultant licence in Maine. The Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation's list of licensed professions has none for lactation — but a 2025 law requires MaineCare to pay certified lactation consultants.
Licence to practise
No licence identified
No effective date recorded
Medicaid billing · consultant who is not a nurse
Legislated — not verified live
Current position
Providers per 10,000 births
36.8
Rank 16 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
- The Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation lists every profession it licenses, from accountants to veterinary technicians; lactation consulting is not among them (read 2026-09-11).
- 22 MRSA §3174-PPP (Public Law 2025, chapter 468) makes lactation consultants certified by an approved national organisation eligible for MaineCare reimbursement without a state licence — see the Medicaid position below.
What this means if you are looking for help
No state licence means the title "lactation consultant" is not restricted in Maine. Anyone may use it. That makes checking the IBCLC credential itself the thing that tells you something.
Can a lactation consultant bill Medicaid here?
Legislated — not verified live
Maine law (22 MRSA §3174-PPP, enacted by Public Law 2025, chapter 468) requires MaineCare to reimburse lactation services given by a licensed health professional or by a consultant or counsellor certified by a national organisation the department approves — which includes a lactation consultant who is not a nurse. The department must adopt rules to carry it out, and we have not verified that enrolment and payment are operating.
Sources
Dataset compiled 2026-09-11. Directly researched. This is a plain-language summary of public sources, not legal advice.