Providers must use screening results to ensure that only VFC-eligible children receive VFC-supplied vaccines and that administration fees are billed as appropriate.
Key Requirements
- Conduct eligibility screening & documentation at each patient visit.
- Offer all age-appropriate, ACIP-recommended vaccines.
- Comply with ACIP’s vaccine-specific recommendations including schedules, dosages, and contraindications.
- Give patient or parent the current Vaccine Information Statements (VISs) or Immunization Information Statement.
- Record information about each immunization, including VIS version date, vaccine given, lot number, injection site, date vaccine was given and vaccinator name. This information must be kept on file for 3 years.
- Report doses administered to CAIR including NDCs, funding source and vaccine eligibility.