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Targeted Vaccinations: Reducing Client Out-of-Pocket Costs

Task Force Finding*

Healthcare system efforts to reduce clients’ out-of-pocket costs for vaccination services include paying for vaccination or administration, providing insurance coverage, or reducing co-payments for vaccinations at the point of service.

The Task Force finds insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of reducing out-of-pocket costs when implemented alone in improving influenza, pneumococcal polysaccharide, or hepatitis B vaccination coverage among high-risk adults, because no studies were identified.

*From the following publication:

Task Force for Community Preventive Services. Recommendations to improve targeted vaccination coverage among high-risk adults. Adobe PDF File [PDF - 97KB] Am J Prev Med 2005:28(5S);231-7.

Review completed: June 2002