The annual requirement to renew your clinic's Childhood Vaccine Program provider agreement starts March 1st for some counties. Please review the Renewal Schedule to see when your clinic is due to renew your provider agreement in the IIS. There are many resources available to assist you in renewing your provider agreement. As a reminder, without an approved agreement in the IIS, your clinic is unable to order childhood vaccines.
Before renewing your Childhood Vaccine Program (CVP) Provider Agreement in the IIS, please ensure:
- your primary and backup vaccine coordinator have completed their annual You Call the Shots training in 2023.
- you have contact information for your billing coordinator.
- you have all medical license numbers and NPI numbers for your practicing providers.
- your practice profile data include data for calendar year 2022.
- all thermometers have an updated certificate of calibration.
Resources:
Severe weather continues to impact vaccine delivery and distribution centers. This may cause delays to some vaccine shipments. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Please join us on Thursday March 16th for another session in the Childhood Vaccine Program (CVP) Training Series. This session will cover how to screen for patient eligibility status, how to bill according to program billing guidelines, and how to submit the required dosage-based assessment (DBA) to private/commercial insurers. The information on how to join the training is below.
March 16, 2023 – CVP Training Series: Billing & Eligibility
Time: 12:00 pm (noon)
Target Audience: Billing personnel and others interested in patient eligibility screening and billing
If you are unable to participate in this training, a recording will be posted on the CVP training webpage.
Over the past few months, Ohio worked to contain a measles outbreak. The latest data show 85 cases: 80 were in unvaccinated individuals, four were in individuals who received only one dose of vaccine, and one was in a person of unknown vaccination status. Eighty of the 85 cases occurred in children younger than 6 years of age. Although 36 of the children were hospitalized, none died.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 25 million children in the US missed the first dose of MMR vaccine and about 15 million more missed their second dose. These children are at high risk of getting a highly infectious and possibly deadly infection. About 8 in 10 children worldwide have received at least one dose of MMR vaccine. This is the lowest rate since 2008. About 95% of the community must be immune to measles (including 2 doses of vaccine) for community immunity. Because international travel is so easy, measles can be easily spread worldwide. Check out this “Doctors Talk” video about measles to hear the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia doctors discuss measles.
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