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December 13, 2021AVAC Supports Section 139402 and Section 139405 of the Build Back Better Act
December 13, 2021 The Honorable Charles Schumer Majority Leader U.S. Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Majority Leader Schumer: Thank you for your strong support and leadership in improving access to vaccines for older adults and individuals with chronic conditions who rely on federal programs for vaccine coverage. We are grateful that the Build Back Better […]
Letters to Congress Eliminating Disparities
September 21, 2021Medicare D Cost Sharing Reduces Vaccine Uptake and Perpetuates Health Inequities
Cost sharing under Medicare Part D can be a large deterrent for beneficiaries to get vaccinated, resulting in worsened health outcomes that continue to perpetuate and exacerbate existing health inequities. Read more about this issue and how Congress can act to address it in this piece written by Josh Adler and Steven Calderbank of IQVIA.
Blogs Eliminating Disparities
September 20, 2021AVAC Submits Comments on the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment
To Whom It May Concern: As participants in the Adult Vaccine Access Coalition (AVAC), we appreciate the opportunity to comment on Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs; etc. Specifically, AVAC wishes to highlight its strong support for the following proposals included in this proposed rulemaking: […]
Letters to Administration Reducing Financial Barriers
September 8, 2021Op-Eds in Support of Passing the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act
Op-Eds in Support of Passing the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act Illinois senior citizens need Congress to pass Immunization Act by Sen. Don DeWitte, Northwest Herald, 07/12/2021 It’s time to start catching up on all vaccinations, not just COVID by Amy Pisani, The CT Mirror, 07/21/2021 Maine Voices: It’s time to lower financial barriers to vaccination […]
Op-Eds Eliminating Disparities
August 3, 2021AVAC Co-Authors White Paper on Improving Maternal Immunization Status
Executive Summary of Improving Maternal Immunization Status: Working Toward Solutions to the Policy, Data, and Implementation Challenges Driving Suboptimal U.S. Maternal Vaccination Rates White Paper Read the entire white paper here. This white paper was written in an effort to better understand evolving challenges that undermine longstanding efforts to address the most persistent barriers to […]
Reports Benefits of Immunization
July 19, 2021AVAC Provides Feedback for the Development of 21st Century CURES 2.0
To Representatives DeGette and Upton: The Adult Vaccine Access Coalition (AVAC) appreciates the opportunity to provide feedback that will help shape and inform the development of 21st Century Cures 2.0. We greatly appreciate your years of leadership in federal policymaking aimed at accelerating innovations in clinical research and trials as well as improving processes that […]
Letters to Congress Eliminating Disparities
May 28, 2021AVAC Leads a Letter in Support of the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act
May 27, 2021 Dear Majority Leader Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, and Minority Leaders McConnell and McCarthy: During Older Americans Month, we, the undersigned organizations that care about healthy aging, write to offer our strong support for the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act (S. 912/H.R. 1978). This bipartisan, bicameral legislation, led by Senators Hirono, Capito, Whitehouse, and […]
Letters to Congress Eliminating Disparities
May 4, 2021AVAC Supports the Maternal Immunization Enhancement Act and the Maternal Immunization Coverage Act
Dear Senators Hassan and Cassidy, We write to express our strong support for the Maternal Immunization Enhancement Act and the Maternal Immunization Coverage Act. We appreciate your leadership around modernizing and improving maternal immunization rates. Since 2004, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has issued recommendations on the importance of maternal immunization, and currently […]
Letters to Congress Eliminating Disparities
March 19, 2021AVAC Expresses Strong Support for the Helping Adults Protect Immunity Act
Dear Senator Brown, We write to express our strong support for the Helping Adults Protect Immunity (HAPI) Act. We appreciate your bi-cameral leadership to strengthen access to immunizations under Medicaid. Medicaid, along with the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), is a federal-state insurance partnership that provides coverage to over 70 million low-income children and adults. […]
Letters to Congress Eliminating Disparities
March 19, 2021AVAC Urges the Biden Administration to use its Presidential Budget to Tackle Vaccination Barriers
Dear President Biden As our nation undergoes a vaccination program that will be the greatest public health efforts of our generation, members of the Adult Vaccine Access Coalition (AVAC) and stakeholder partners ask that as you consider updating longstanding structural flaws in our vaccine policies as part of the Build Back Better Recovery plan. Inequities […]
Letters to Administration Appropriations/Funding for Immunization
March 19, 2021AVAC Releases Statement of Support for the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act
Statement in Support of the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act of 2021 The following is a statement regarding the introduction of the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act of 2021 [link] from Patricia D’Antonio, co-chair of Adult Vaccine Access Coalition (AVAC) and the vice president of professional affairs for The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and […]
Press Releases Appropriations/Funding for Immunization
March 19, 2021AVAC Supports the Introduction of the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act to Congress
Dear Representatives Kuster and Bucshon, As members of the Adult Vaccine Access Coalition (AVAC), we commend you for introducing the Protecting Seniors Through Immunization Act of 2021. AVAC consists of more than sixty organizational leaders in health and public health who are committed to raising awareness of the importance of adult immunization with the ultimate […]
Letters to Congress Appropriations/Funding for Immunization