A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to improve the childhood immunization rate by providing for coverage of additional vaccines under the medicaid program and for enhanced Federal payment to States for vaccines administered to children under such program,and for other purposes.
Childhood Immunization Improvement Act of 1991 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to: (1) change the Federal matching rate payment methodology for immunizations under Medicaid to a 90 percent Federal and a ten percent State cost share; and (2) ensure that State Medicaid programs pay for all federally recommended immunizations.
Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to ensure that State Medicaid agencies and health care providers are eligible to participate in the Centers for Disease Control bulk vaccine purchasing program.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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