RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 488 (HB 650) 2022 Regular Session Hilferty
New law requires Medicaid health plans to provide coverage benefits for medically necessary
pasteurized donor human milk upon prescription of an infant's pediatrician stating that the
infant is medically or physically unable to receive maternal human milk or participate in
breastfeeding, or the infant's mother is medically or physically unable to produce maternal
human milk in sufficient quantities.
New law authorizes the La. Dept. of Health to seek approval of a federal Medicaid waiver
and state plan amendments in implementation of new law.
New law provides that Medicaid shall reimburse only for outpatient donor human milk
obtained from a member bank of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America.
Effective August 1, 2022.
(Adds R.S. 46:977.31)