As of January 1, 2025, Birth and Beyond Doula Services is accepting Medicaid/Apple Health! Per the HCA website: 'Birth doulas are trained nonclinical professionals who provide emotional, physical, psychosocial, and informational support to pregnant, birthing, post-pregnant people, and their families. Evidence supports doulas improving outcomes across a range of metrics for this population, including infants, and a larger positive impact for Black, Indigenous, and other people of color. There has long been support in Washington for increasing access to doulas, especially for people on Apple Health.'

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What does this mean for you? Through this benefit, you are allowed: 

• One prenatal intake visit, in-person, 2 hours

• Continuous labor and delivery support

• One Comprehensive postpartum visit, 90 minutes​

• 18.5 additional hours that can be used in the prenatal period and/or in the postpartum period, up to one year after birth

​***A client remains eligible to receive birth doula services in labor, or the postpartum period, even if birth doula services were not initiated during the prenatal period. As long as clients fall within one of the eligibility periods, they remain eligible for birth doula service, regardless of when they first initiate care with their birth doula, whether it's during pregnancy, during labor or the postpartum period.***

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Please be aware that we take a limited number of birth clients monthly! Availability changes daily sometimes. Reach out EARLY in your pregnancy to get on our calendars in time, before we fill up!