Tell me about your vision.
My vision is to have a really large workforce of DULAs who are Medicaid providers in the state of Nevada.
You said really, really large workforce of DULAs in the state of Nevada.
Correct.
Can you tell me more about that?
Yeah, DULAs are a non-medical provider that work with women who are pregnant through the birth process, labor and delivery and postpartum.
They're in higher demand now and almost two years ago it was announced that Medicaid would cover.
We did legislation here in the state of Nevada to raise the working wage to a decent amount of money.
I charge $1,500 normally for a self-pay client and in the beginning, Nevada Medicaid was paying $350.
So it was not a working wage, but we've raised that up to the $1,300 to $1,500 range, which was an amazing accomplishment.
And we now need to build a bigger workforce of DULAs who want to work with the previously unserved populations.
DULAs predominantly are known for home births and self-pay, which is an upper middle class demographic.
With Medicaid's coverage, that opens up 50% of the pregnant population, which is amazing.
And also a population of women who most likely it would have been much more challenging for them to be able to afford to hire a DULA.
And it's 100% covered by their Medicaid plan.
And in order to serve the amount of pregnant women who actively have Medicaid during pregnancy, we would need a bigger DULA workforce.
It changed my business from almost 100% home birth self-pay to about 80% are Medicaid clients now and in the hospital predominantly.
So it's really changed what DULAs can do and where DULAs work and who they work with.