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Childhood Immunization Availability in Primary Care Practices
Thomas M. Vernon, MD
Merck & Co West Point, Pa
Arch Fam Med. 1995;4(2):97.
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In the July 1994 issue of the ARCHIVES, Hueston and colleagues1 have nicely demonstrated something that all of us sense intuitively: that physicians who are provided vaccines for their patients who receive Medicaid are more likely to offer immunizations in their offices than are physicians who have to buy and store the vaccines and wait for (hope for) reimbursement later.
Based on Merck & Co's sense of this, since 1992, the Merck Vaccine Division, West Point, Pa, has offered all of the state Medicaid agencies a program in which Medicaid providers can receive Merck & Co vaccines at no charge to them. Through the Merck Medicaid Program for Vaccines, Merck & Co worked with physicians and Medicaid staff to develop a list of all Medicaid-registered physicians. Each physician was sent a 10-dose seed supply of vaccine; then he or she administered it to Medicaid-eligible children, and its use was
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