Health Affairs July 1, 2024
Abstract
The COVID-19 Uninsured Program, administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), reimbursed providers for administering COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured US adults from December 11, 2020, through April 5, 2022. Using HRSA claims data covering forty-two states, we estimated that the program funded about 38.9 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, accounting for 5.7 percent of total doses distributed and 10.9 percent of doses administered to adults ages 19–64.
In 2021, uninsured people accounted for 8.3 percent (27.2 million) of the total US population; adults ages 19–64 had the highest uninsurance rate (11.6 percent) among all age groups.1 To reach uninsured people for whom vaccines costs are a barrier,2 the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) administered the COVID-19 Uninsured...
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