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Article: AmeriHealth to cover FluMist due to vaccine shortage.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- January 8, 2004
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2004 JAN 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In response to the reported shortage of injectible flu vaccines, AmeriHealth announced that for the remainder of this flu season, the insurer will expand its coverage of flu vaccines to include the nasal-spray FluMist.
This special accommodation will apply to those individuals for whom FluMist is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC, following indications approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has recommended the use of FluMist for healthy children and adults between the ages of 5 and 49.
G. Fred DiBona, Jr., AmeriHealth chairman, President and chief executive ...