Medicare Advocates Cheer IRA’s No Cost-Sharing Vaccine Coverage

By Dorothy Mills-Gregg / August 10, 2022 at 4:17 PM
The Center for Medicare Advocacy is cheering the Inflation Reduction Act’s provision to increase Medicare beneficiaries’ access to necessary vaccines, though the patient advocates still have expanding dental, hearing and vision benefits on their wish list for Congress. “It is certainly a positive step forward -- as a matter of public policy, we want to encourage people to access life and health saving vaccines,” David Lipschutz, CMA associate director/senior policy attorney, said in an email Wednesday (Aug. 10). “By eliminating...


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