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A Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) press release (Click here for the link), reflects that medical practices across the country are being left out of the vaccine rollout efforts. A staggering 85% of independent practices actively seeking vaccine for their patients report having obtained none to date. The majority of practices that have obtained the vaccine report only receiving enough to vaccinate one percent or less of their patients.

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"Current vaccine efforts are haphazard at best and appear to rely on a passive first come first serve approach with the public rushing to sign up for vaccines when scant supply becomes available," MGMA noted. "This favors patients who can advocate for themselves or have family members able to do the same. Yet medical group practices already have patient relationships and experience vaccinating patients for influenza and other conditions." Moreover, physician practices have data on patient demographics, preexisting conditions and risk factors. This is valuable information not available to hospitals, pharmacies and state health departments, MGMA said.

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Duncan Idaho said:

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Getting Shots available for doctors to give at office visits is probably the best way to combat resistance

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