Insured Care
Doula support, covered by your benefit.
If you have Medi-Cal or Kaiser Permanente, doula care is part of your benefit, and we’re here to help you use it. The depth and quality of the care doesn’t change based on how it’s paid for. What does change is what your benefit authorizes and what lives outside it. This page walks you through both, so you know what to expect before you reach out.
What your benefit covers
Your doula benefit authorizes a specific scope of support across the perinatal arc: prenatal visits, birth attendance, and postpartum visits, within the limits your plan sets. Each plan sets its own visit allowances and can update them over time, so check your benefit for the current details; we’ll also confirm them with you when you reach out. Our insured-care practitioners walk with you across that arc, preparing for birth together, attending your labor, and supporting you through the early postpartum window.
Typical visits include education on what’s coming, emotional and practical support, help understanding your options, and the kind of attentive presence the clinical system isn’t built to offer. Our practitioners who work within the doula benefit are Chay and Julie. They are the same FSB practitioners who serve all of our families; the care is whole.
What lives outside the benefit
Some of the practices central to FSB’s work, Closing of the Bones, womb and pelvic bodywork, and other ceremonial or somatic offerings, are not authorized under the doula benefit. This isn’t a line FSB is drawing. It’s the scope your insurer set when the benefit was designed.
These practices remain available to you as private-pay add-ons, at a fee structure we’re glad to walk you through. There’s no pressure and no assumption. Many families use their insured care exactly as authorized and never need anything else. Others choose to weave in ceremonial or bodywork pieces along the way. Both are full participation in the care we offer.
How to begin
Reach out and let us know you have Medi-Cal or Kaiser. We’ll verify your eligibility, walk you through the intake, and route you to either Chay or Julie based on availability and fit.
If you have questions before you’re ready to start the intake, about what’s covered, how the verification works, or anything else, you’re welcome to ask. We’re used to walking families through this for the first time.