Lactation consultant licensing in Minnesota
No lactation-consultant licence in Minnesota. None of the state's health-related licensing boards covers lactation, and bills to create a clinical lactation licence in 2015 and 2017 did not become law.
Licence to practise
No licence identified
No effective date recorded
Medicaid billing · consultant who is not a nurse
Only through another provider
Current position
Providers per 10,000 births
19.1
Rank 37 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
- Minnesota's health-related licensing boards — from Behavioral Health to Nursing — include no lactation board (read 2026-09-11).
- HF 2322 (2015) and HF 1413 (2017–2018) proposed licensing clinical lactation services. Neither created a licence.
What this means if you are looking for help
No state licence means the title "lactation consultant" is not restricted in Minnesota. Anyone may use it. That makes checking the IBCLC credential itself the thing that tells you something.
Can a lactation consultant bill Medicaid here?
Only through another provider
Minnesota Health Care Programs do not enrol lactation consultants in their own right. The provider manual's only route is prenatal education: clinics and outpatient hospitals whose programme is directed by an enrolled provider may bill for registered nurses, or for health educators with a relevant degree or a certification such as IBCLC. A lactation consultant who is not a nurse can be paid only through such a clinic or hospital.
Sources
- Minnesota health-related licensing boards — read 2026-09-11
- Minnesota Legislature — HF 1413 status (2017–2018) — read 2026-09-11
Dataset compiled 2026-09-11. Directly researched. This is a plain-language summary of public sources, not legal advice.