{"id":21978,"date":"2023-10-26T07:51:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T11:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21978"},"modified":"2023-10-26T07:51:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T11:51:35","slug":"were-absolutely-making-it-too-hard-the-complexity-of-adult-immunization-delivery-hinders-vaccine-uptake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21978","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re absolutely making it too hard\u2019: The complexity of adult immunization delivery hinders vaccine uptake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Helen Branswell for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alison Buttenheim was floored by a sign she saw in her doctor\u2019s office when she went to get the first jab of the two-dose shingles vaccine to protect her against painful flare-ups of varicella zoster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMedicare patients cannot receive Tdap or zoster vaccines here. They need to obtain [them] at their pharmacy. If they receive it here, they need to pay out of pocket,\u201d the notice read.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/10\/25\/adult-vaccines-flu-covid-tdap-complexity\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2023\/10\/25\/adult-vaccines-flu-covid-tdap-complexity\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"24\" class=\"wp-image-4372\" style=\"width: 225px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Helen Branswell for STAT) Alison Buttenheim was floored by a sign she saw in her doctor\u2019s office when she<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,32,12,6,15],"tags":[935,80,61,65,94,364],"class_list":["post-21978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-cms","category-health-care-general","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-adult-immunization","tag-cms","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21979,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21978\/revisions\/21979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}