Vaccines for CHIP-Eligible Children Can Once Again Be Ordered through the VFC Program
Health care
professionals who treat children covered under the Children's Health Insurance
Program (CHIP) can once again obtain vaccines through the Vaccines For Children
(VFC) program. This policy change allows doctors to avoid having to buy
vaccines from private sources at market cost and be reimbursed later.
In 2016, the VFC and
CHIP programs were separated and it was no longer possible for children’s
vaccines covered by CHIP to be ordered through the VFC program.
Under the Pritzker
administration, the programs have been rejoined.
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