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Tell me about your vision.

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My vision is to have a really large workforce of DULAs who are Medicaid providers in the state of Nevada.

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You said really, really large workforce of DULAs in the state of Nevada.

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Correct.

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Can you tell me more about that?

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Yeah, DULAs are a non-medical provider that work with women who are pregnant through the birth process, labor and delivery and postpartum.

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They're in higher demand now and almost two years ago it was announced that Medicaid would cover.

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We did legislation here in the state of Nevada to raise the working wage to a decent amount of money.

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I charge $1,500 normally for a self-pay client and in the beginning, Nevada Medicaid was paying $350.

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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.

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And we now need to build a bigger workforce of DULAs who want to work with the previously unserved populations.

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DULAs predominantly are known for home births and self-pay, which is an upper middle class demographic.

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With Medicaid's coverage, that opens up 50% of the pregnant population, which is amazing.

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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.

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And it's 100% covered by their Medicaid plan.

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And in order to serve the amount of pregnant women who actively have Medicaid during pregnancy, we would need a bigger DULA workforce.

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It changed my business from almost 100% home birth self-pay to about 80% are Medicaid clients now and in the hospital predominantly.

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So it's really changed what DULAs can do and where DULAs work and who they work with.