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It’s that time of the year again! Provider enrollment and re-enrollment will begin in 2 weeks on June 3rd, 2024. There are some changes this year, so please read the following information carefully.
If you are a provider who was enrolled in AVP last year who wishes to re-enroll:
- Do not use the enrollment link on the AVP website.
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Your facility contacts will receive an automated email on June 3rd with a link to your pre-populated, facility specific provider agreement to update and sign. This should save providers a lot of time in completing the re-enrollment process!
- If you need to update your facility contacts, please reach out to us at WAAdultVaccines@doh.wa.gov.
If your facility was NOT enrolled in AVP last year:
- You may use the enrollment link on the AVP website starting on June 3rd, 2024 to begin enrolling in AVP. We will also send this link out via newsletter when enrollment opens for your convenience. Please do not start enrolling prior to June 3rd or you will need to complete the enrollment form again.
 You can gather important information now to save you time when enrollment opens. Here are some important items you may want to compile now:
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Vaccine Selection: The enrollment form will prompt you to select up to 5 vaccine types that you would like the option to request this year through AVP. Please consider these options carefully as you will not have the option to change your selections until the next enrollment period in 2025. See more details in the article below.
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Annual Training Requirement: Ensure that both the primary and back up vaccine coordinators have completed the annual online You Call the Shots training within the current calendar year.
- The trainings can be found here.
- Follow these instructions to complete the trainings and access certificates. You will need to upload the training certificate as part of completing the provider agreement.
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Shipping Details: Verify the days of the week and core business hours clinic staff are available to receive vaccine deliveries.
- The facility must be open to receive vaccine deliveries two days a week, Monday through Friday, for a minimum of four consecutive hours per day.
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Cold Storage Unit Details: Verify information on all units storing publicly supplied vaccine.
- Cold Storage Units: unit type, manufacturer, effective date, and purchase/issue date.
- Thermometers: thermometer type, make and model of thermometer (entered in serial number field), date of last calibration, and calibration expiration date.
- A photo for proof of brand/model, capacity and calibration certificate is required for each unit listed.
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Practicing Providers: List all licensed health care practitioners (MD, DO, NP, PA, pharmacist, etc.) at your facility who have prescribing authority.
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Patient Population: Report the number of uninsured and underinsured adult patients (19-65 years of age) served by your facility in the last 12 months. If you did not see any uninsured and/or underinsured adult patients, please indicate the number of patients you anticipate you will serve in the coming 12 months.
Please note that for providers who are re-enrolling: Your information from last year’s provider agreement will be saved, so you will only need to update information that has changed or is out of date.
 The enrollment form will prompt you to select up to 5 vaccine types that you would like the option to request through AVP this year. Please consider these options carefully as you will not have the option to change your selections until the next enrollment period in June 2025.
Keep in mind:
- Your AVP order sets will only contain the vaccine products you select in this section.
- Your ranking will help us prioritize your preferred vaccine products during the AVP allocation process in the event we cannot fill all requests due to funding limitations.
- You are not guaranteed to receive an allocation of the vaccine types selected.
- Leave selections blank if you wish to request less than 5 vaccine types.
- You must select COVID-19 vaccine as one of your top 5 priorities if you wish to request COVID-19 vaccine through AVP this fall.
- Do not select more than 1 brand of each vaccine in your top 5. For example, do not prioritize 2 Hepatitis A products (i.e. Vaqta & Havrix) or 2 Tdap products (i.e. Adacel and Boostrix).
Here is a chart displaying details of all available products to choose from. There are 4 products newly added to AVP this year, indicated in bold below:
Last year the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the HHS Bridge Access Program to maintain broad access to COVID-19 vaccines for millions of uninsured Americans. Through the Bridge Access Program, adults 18 years and older without health insurance and adults whose health insurance does not cover all COVID-19 vaccine costs can get free updated COVID-19 vaccines. The Bridge Access Program is temporary and was originally scheduled to end in December 2024, however we recently heard from our CDC partners that components of the Bridge Access Program are expected to sunset in August 2024.
This is expected to include the Federal pharmacy partnership with Walgreens, CVS and pharmacies contracted through eTrueNorth. We are still learning more about potential impacts to state-level efforts and hope to have more information in the coming weeks.
 The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) meeting set for May 16, 2024 to discuss the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine formula has been postponed to June 5, 2024.
This new date will allow for additional time to obtain surveillance data and other information to inform VRBPAC discussions and recommendations. FDA does not anticipate that the date change will impact COVID-19 vaccine availability for the fall.
Both hepatitis A and hepatitis B are easily preventable with effective vaccines. See Immunize.org’s extensive sets of clinical resources and Ask the Experts web pages on each of these important vaccines.
Spread the word with graphics and posts on social media to promote Hepatitis Awareness Month and National Hepatitis Testing Day. CDC's social media toolkit is posted on its Hepatitis Awareness Month web page. Related Links
Immunize.org: Ask the Experts: Hepatitis B web page
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