Lactation consultant licensing in Massachusetts

Massachusetts enacted lactation consultant licensure in November 2024, administered by the Board of Allied Health Professions. ⚠ We have not yet read the statute itself — see the caveat below.

Licence required · since 2024-11-21 · IBCLC certification required

What we found

⚠ PRIMARY SOURCE NOT YET READ. Every government source for this record — malegislature.gov and mass.gov — was unreachable from the machine this dataset is built on. What follows is from secondary sources that agree with each other, and it is published on that basis rather than presented as verified.
Licensure requirements are reported as added by St. 2024, c. 186, § 34, effective 2024-11-21.
Reported as codified in Massachusetts General Laws chapter 112. Sources differ on the exact section — § 23B and § 23J½ both appear — which is itself a reason to treat this record as unverified.
An applicant must be at least 18 and meet the education and clinical standards established for International Board Certified Lactation Consultants by IBLCE or its successor.
The Board of Allied Health Professions includes three members who are licensed lactation consultants.
⚠ Whether applications are actually open, and whether a public licensee register exists, is unconfirmed.

What this means if you are looking for help

Massachusetts appears to have a lactation consultant licence, but we have not been able to confirm the details against the state's own published law, and we do not know whether licensing is operational yet. Treat this page as a pointer, and check with the Board of Allied Health Professions before relying on it.

Can a lactation consultant bill Medicaid here?

We have not researched this for Massachusetts yet.

Whether an IBCLC can enrol with Massachusetts Medicaid and bill it directly is a separate policy question from licensing, and we have only worked through 14 of 51 jurisdictions. A blank here means unchecked, not no — ask your plan directly.

Sources

Massachusetts General Laws c.112 §23B (not reachable from this machine; listed as the reported codification) — read 2026-09-10
Mass.gov — Board of Allied Health Professions — read 2026-09-10
CLEAR — Massachusetts: licensure for midwives and lactation consultants — read 2026-09-10

Dataset compiled 2026-09-10. Not yet directly researched. This is a plain-language summary of public sources, not legal advice.