• AVAC 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
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    Medicare 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
  • AVAC 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
  • Op-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
  • AVAC 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
  • AVAC 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
  • AVAC 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
  • AVAC 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
  • AVAC 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
  • AVAC 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
  • AVAC 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
  • AVAC 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