Richard H. Hughes, IV, Member of the Firm in the Health Care & Life Sciences practice, in the firm’s Washington, DC, office, was quoted in Modern Healthcare, in “Insurers, Employers Weigh Vaccine Coverage in RFK Jr. Era,” by Noah Tong. (Read the full version – subscription required.)
Following is an excerpt:
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 requires insurance plans to cover vaccinations ACIP endorses without cost-sharing. Absent that imprimatur, insurers could opt to drop coverage of vaccines or subject them to cost-sharing requirements.
“I think the question now is, in the absence of ACIP recommendations, what do payers have to do or should they do?” said Richard Hughes, an attorney at Epstein Becker & Green and former Moderna executive. Hughes is optimistic insurers will continue covering vaccines, he said.
