Midwives' Advantage CEO, Stacy Lewis, is a midwife that believed in the reality of insurance paying for midwife services. She felt maternity services should pay regardless of the location of those services. Our insurance billing story for midwives began in 1997 and was a long process fighting for the rights of families that used midwives. These families found their maternity claims were denied based on the location of their delivery or the type of provider attending them. In 2010 partnerships with key people in the insurance and legal industries gave our company the legal structure needed to advance to a new level of success. This development led to agreements with insurance companies for out-of-hospital births.
Midwives love the benefits they get when they join with us to process claims! We are the back office that manages administrative duties, which frees the healthcare provider's time to provide care and pay attention to your patients. We provide straightforward, affordable solutions that streamline workflow and increase the overall efficiency and bring positive results to midwives everywhere. Our company consists of certified billers and coders, medical compliance officers, and practice management professionals. Our employees are required to add to attend courses in HIPAA requirements, ethics, and practice management.
We are excited to be a positive force in the healthcare industry and to see that consumers are treated right. We get insurance claims paid quickly and fairly! Everybody wins! Insurance companies pay as they should, consumers get to use their maternity benefits, and midwives get paid for their work.
Midwives love the benefits they get when they join with us to process claims! We are the back office that manages administrative duties, which frees the healthcare provider's time to provide care and pay attention to your patients. We provide straightforward, affordable solutions that streamline workflow and increase the overall efficiency and bring positive results to midwives everywhere. Our company consists of certified billers and coders, medical compliance officers, and practice management professionals. Our employees are required to add to attend courses in HIPAA requirements, ethics, and practice management.
We are excited to be a positive force in the healthcare industry and to see that consumers are treated right. We get insurance claims paid quickly and fairly! Everybody wins! Insurance companies pay as they should, consumers get to use their maternity benefits, and midwives get paid for their work.
Our Founder
My name is Stacy Lewis, and I am the owner of Midwives Advantage. My birth journey started in 1983 when my first child was born in a small community hospital in Lubbock, Texas. My husband and I didn't have insurance at the time, so we paid $600 for the doctor's services and $600 for the hospital. At the hospital, when total strangers had control and possession of my brand new baby daughter, I knew that I would never again plan to give birth in a hospital. I gave birth eight more times at home with midwives in 1986, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2002. During those years, my husband was a Federal employee with the US Postal Service, and we had comprehensive health insurance through his work.
If I had given birth in a hospital, my insurance would have paid all but $200. It paid zero for home births. We paid for our insurance every month, and we spent thousands of dollars paying our midwives. I finally realized that I only had maternity insurance if I delivered in the hospital. When I became a licensed midwife, I witnessed the same frustration of claim denials with my home birth clients. Midwives are healthcare professionals that offer the same or better care as other licensed providers, and parents with insurance coverage should not have to pay for all of their care out-of-pocket. The Mother's and Newborn Protection Act and Affordable Care Act require payers to recognize and pay for the services of any healthcare provider acting within the scope of their practice. This policy includes midwives as there are no exclusions or exceptions, and "hospital birth is not mandated."
After struggling for years to get claims paid, I had a significant breakthrough in 2010. I met several key people with extensive knowledge and connections in insurance and law. These partnerships gave me the ability to advance to a new level of success in getting claims paid by insurance companies. Since I am a midwife, I understand the intricacies of our industry that other billing companies cannot comprehend. Midwives Advantage extended our success to midwives and their clients across the country.
All you need is an Advantage! Midwives Advantage gets insurance claims paid.
If I had given birth in a hospital, my insurance would have paid all but $200. It paid zero for home births. We paid for our insurance every month, and we spent thousands of dollars paying our midwives. I finally realized that I only had maternity insurance if I delivered in the hospital. When I became a licensed midwife, I witnessed the same frustration of claim denials with my home birth clients. Midwives are healthcare professionals that offer the same or better care as other licensed providers, and parents with insurance coverage should not have to pay for all of their care out-of-pocket. The Mother's and Newborn Protection Act and Affordable Care Act require payers to recognize and pay for the services of any healthcare provider acting within the scope of their practice. This policy includes midwives as there are no exclusions or exceptions, and "hospital birth is not mandated."
After struggling for years to get claims paid, I had a significant breakthrough in 2010. I met several key people with extensive knowledge and connections in insurance and law. These partnerships gave me the ability to advance to a new level of success in getting claims paid by insurance companies. Since I am a midwife, I understand the intricacies of our industry that other billing companies cannot comprehend. Midwives Advantage extended our success to midwives and their clients across the country.
All you need is an Advantage! Midwives Advantage gets insurance claims paid.