Lactation consultant licensing in Missouri
No lactation-consultant licence in Missouri. Title XXII of the Revised Statutes, which holds the state's occupational licensing laws, has no chapter 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
25
Rank 29 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
- Missouri Revised Statutes Title XXII (Occupations and Professions) runs from chapter 324 to 346 — physicians, nurses, dietitians and others — with no chapter licensing lactation consultants (read 2026-09-11).
- The Department of Health and Senior Services instead lists lactation providers who choose to register, which is not a licence.
What this means if you are looking for help
No state licence means the title "lactation consultant" is not restricted in Missouri. 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 Missouri 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
- Missouri Revisor of Statutes — Title XXII, Occupations and Professions — read 2026-09-11
- Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services — Lactation Providers — read 2026-09-11
Dataset compiled 2026-09-11. Directly researched. This is a plain-language summary of public sources, not legal advice.