Medical Xpress July 23, 2021

(HealthDay)—Primary care physicians have been the largest provider of vaccinations for older individuals, according to a study published online in the July 1 issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.

Elizabeth Wilkinson, from the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care in Washington, D.C., and colleagues used 2017 Medicare Part B Fee-for-Service data and the 2013 to 2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to assess delivery of vaccinations by provider type.

The researchers found that in the 2017 Medicare Part B Fee-for-Service, provided the largest share of services for vaccinations (46 percent), followed closely by mass immunizers (45 percent), and then /physician...

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