The National Institutes of Health has announced an agreement with the World Health Organization and the Medicines Patent Pool to make COVID-19 health technologies available worldwide. The NIH has licensed 11 COVID-19 research tools and early-stage vaccine and diagnostic candidates to the Medicines Patent Pool through WHO's COVID-19 Technology Access Pool, or C-TAP. The
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The Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, has announced a new program for providers to cover the cost of administering COVID-19 vaccines to patients enrolled in health plans that either do not cover vaccination fees or cover them with patient cost-sharing.
The COVID-19 Coverage Assistance Fund addresses a provider need to be reimbursed for uncompensated costs. Providers cannot bill patients for COVID-19 vaccination fees.
HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said, We listened to our healthcare providers on the frontlines of the pandemic. On top of increasing reimbursement rates tied to administering the shots, we are closing the final payment gap that resulted as vaccines were administered to underinsured individuals. No healthcare provider should hesitate to deliver these critical vaccines to patients over reimbursement cost concerns.
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The Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic are leading a coalition of 60 hospitals and healthcare institutions in a nationwide campaign to encourage adults to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Get the Vaccine to Save Lives is designed to reassure the public that vaccines are safe, effective and necessary to achieve herd immunity and return to normal, according to the Cleveland Clinic. The COVID-19 vaccine is safe and highly effective and offers our best hope for beating the disease, said Dr. Tom Mihaljevic, Cleveland Clinic s CEO and president.
Mayo Clinic s President and CEO Dr. Gianrico Farrugia said, The vaccine is our strongest asset to end the pandemic, and I urge everyone who is eligible to get whichever vaccine you re first offered to save lives.