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VFC: Why Become a VFC Provider?
Detailed response to "Why should I join VFC?"
Vaccines for Children Program Topics:
- Reduces your out of pocket costs because you don't have to buy vaccine with your own money.
- Saves your patients out of pocket costs because the vaccines are free.
- Allows you to charge an admin fee to offset your cost of doing business.
- Covers all ACIP recommended vaccines.
- Enhances all services you provide relative to EPSDT.
- You no longer have to refer patients to public health to get their vaccines.
- Helps to build your business by providing badly needed government services to patients in need.
Although the public sector purchases the majority of vaccine doses provided nationwide, the private sector is now the primary source of vaccine delivery to all children.
Since its inception, the VFC Program has contributed to shifting the nationwide vaccine delivery system away from Public Health and more toward Private Providers.
VFC has accomplished this shift by providing free vaccines to primary care physicians, attempting to keep children in their "medical home" (their regular source of primary care), with the goal of decreasing private provider referral of patients to public health for immunizations.
Over the past decade, both general and immunization specific pediatric "best practices" have included the administering of a child's immunizations in their medical home.
Content last reviewed on February 16, 2007
Content Source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
