Complete vaccine package contract with providers should be basis of VFC procurement -- Connaught exec.

FEDERAL VACCINE PROGRAM PAYMENTS TO PROVIDERS FOR COMPLETE SCHEDULE administration should be considered, Connaught VP-Public Policy Christine Grant argued at a National Institute for Allergy & Infectious Diseases workshop on pertussis vaccines June 4 in Washington, D.C. "This would give the authority and responsibility to providers, not government or insurers, to design the most patient- and provider-friendly, cost-effective way to deliver the vaccine schedule in five or six visits," Grant maintained. "Those visits could vary: they could be the kind of brief immunization visits or it could be the full well-child development visits."