INSURANCE SUBMITTAL | DONA LETTER TO INSURANCE COMPANIES & REIMBURSEMENT CHECKLIST

Do health insurance plans cover doula services and birth classes?
Doulananda gives you all the information you need to submit a reimbursement claim to your insurance company. In other parts of the country there is about an 80% success rate in reimbursement! We are just starting to test the waters in Jacksonville so we cannot guarantee that rate, but it is hopeful. We will give you all that you need to submit the best claim for optimum reimbursement potential.

HSA or FSA?
Many doulas in Jacksonville and the surrounding areas have found that Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Spending Accounts are most likely to cover doula services and even childbirth education classes.

We ask that you try to submit to your traditional plans first and use the FSA and HSA as a back up plan. It's time to send a message to the insurance companies that doula services are an important addition to insurance coverage and that having a doula extends an additional savings to the insurance company!

For each of these options we will provide you an invoice with all the proper codes. Our doulas also have the correct credentials and NPI numbers for the best possible outcomes.

Medicaid for Pregnancy
While Florida Medicaid for Pregnancy does not currently offer coverage for childbirth education classes and doula services in Jacksonville, Doulananda Birth Services offers dicsounted price plans for families who have Pregnancy Medicaid. Call us to see how we can work with you!

{consider the following, borrowed from: http://www.findadoula.com/Professionals/insurance.htm}

Consider the long list of interventions the medical literature has documented that are reduced when a doula supports a woman in labor. Benefits of continuous doula support reduce the incidence of:

Reduction in the rate of cesarean section reduces expenditures on the complications related to cesareans. As a result, cesarean related risks are  reduced with doula supported births. All of the following can be found resulting  from the support of a doula:

Documented reductions in other interventions would also subsequently lead to reductions in:

And if moms are more likely to breastfeed and are more successful in part due to doula support then..."Increased breastfeeding rates helps lead to lower rates of infant and childhood illnesses. The health benefits of breastfeeding have been well documented and include a decrease in":

Increased breastfeeding rates can help protect mothers from:

"Compare all of these potential savings to the cost to insurers of covering a doula's fees, which usually range from $200-600 per family. Doulas are a
cost-effective preventative health measure, making a significant difference to the longer term health of women and their families, and ultimately, your bottom line! (of the insurance companies)."