Melissa_M
Guest
In Sept 2011 I attended a Medicaid meeting and a question was ask about patients with private insurance and medicaid as secondary, do they receive VFC vaccines? The reply was no they should receive private vaccines and bill the primary insurance. So I spoke with the Dept. Of Health Immunization program today, because they had listed various scenerios on proper vfc use. As I was reading I came to:
Scenario 8:
Patients presents with private health insurance and Medicaid.
All children who are Medicaid recipients are eligible to receive publicly funded vaccine regardless of private health insurance coverage. The provider should administer VFC vaccine and bill the administration fee to Medicaid. Medicaid will pay the administration fee and seek reimbursement from the primary insurance.
This is a complete contradiction of medicaid's statement. (I called they are out of the office today.)
What are you thoughts?
Scenario 8:
Patients presents with private health insurance and Medicaid.
All children who are Medicaid recipients are eligible to receive publicly funded vaccine regardless of private health insurance coverage. The provider should administer VFC vaccine and bill the administration fee to Medicaid. Medicaid will pay the administration fee and seek reimbursement from the primary insurance.
This is a complete contradiction of medicaid's statement. (I called they are out of the office today.)
What are you thoughts?