Medicare will pay health care providers the same rate to administer the H1N1 flu vaccine as the seasonal flu vaccine, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reports. The program will pay for both H1N1 and seasonal vaccination and for administering more than one dose of vaccine, if medically necessary for the beneficiary, according to the CMS article.
The program will not pay physicians and other providers for the H1N1 vaccine itself, since it will be available to them for free. For more information, see the Medicare Learning Network article.
In other flu news, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 36 deaths among children with H1N1 flu as of August, two-thirds of whom had high-risk medical conditions.
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