Vaccines
for Children Program (VFC)
For Providers
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Why
Become a VFC Provider?
Detailed response to "Why
should I join VFC?" |
Delivering
quality primary care services in the “medical
home”:
- Reduces
your out of pocket costs because you don’t
have to buy vaccine with your own money.
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Saves your patients out of pocket costs because
the vaccines are free.
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Allows you to charge an admin fee to offset
your cost of doing business.
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Covers all ACIP recommended vaccines.
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Enhances all services you provide relative
to EPSDT.
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You no longer have to refer patients to public
health to get their vaccines.
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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.
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