Making Vaccine Financing and Delivery Work for Everyone

Host: Jennifer Shu, MD, FAAP Guest: Jay Berkelhamer, MD The medical community provides a vital public health service when we vaccinate our patients. However, this practice is often a money-losing proposition for us, as evidenced by the many primary care physicians who are discontinuing immunizations in their practice. What can physicians, vaccine manufacturers and insurers do to improve the current vaccine financing and delivery system? Dr. Jay Berkelhamer, senior vice president and chief academic officer at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, and past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, joins host Dr. Jennifer Shu to explores a series of ways through which organizations and workers throughout the healthcare community can do their part to improve our system for financing vaccines.