The federal government will begin reimbursing doctors for the time they spend counseling about the COVID-19 vaccine
or the last month, Dr. John Waits and his staff have asked the parents of any kid who walks into the clinic the same question: will the child have the COVID-19 vaccine?
Already the effort to vaccinate children has been an uphill battle. After an initial spike of interest in the first ten days that young children were eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, progress has slowed significantly. More than a month later, just 1 in 5 children have gotten their first shot, andhave developed among states: some report that a quarter of kids are vaccinated; others are under 10%.
“This policy really just underscores the importance of vaccination education, how critical that is as a piece of what gets people to making that decision to go ahead and get vaccinated and how critical it is to combating mis- and disinformation,” says Dr. Cameron Webb, senior adviser for equity on the White House COVID-19 Response Team.In some ways, vaccinating children en masse should be easy. Primary care and family medicine doctors, as well as pediatricians, give vaccines all the time.
“You make an audible on the line of scrimmage every visit. If somebody has got a lot of genuine questions and the conversation is going well, you steal an extra three or four minutes for the conversation, and you take it out of the next visit,” Waits says. If a parent seems to really shut down, he might move on more quickly and revisit the issue another time.
Vacheria Tutson, director of regulatory affairs at the National Association of Community Health Centers, says her organization started meeting with officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to discuss reimbursement challenges during the presidential transition period. “This is such a great step in the right direction,” she says.Under the new policy, the cost of COVID-19 counseling visits for children who have Medicaid will be covered by 100% federal funding.
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