VFC
The VFC program provides vaccines at no cost to providers. This is the only charge providers may request from families.
What is a vaccine administration fee?
This document reflects the current IQIP program processes and policies.
What is the IQIP Operations Guide?
This is the full name of the Indiana State immunization registry.
What is the Children adn Hoosier Immunization Registry Program?
This is the practice of using VFC vaccine for privately insured patients or vice versa, in limited situations, and with required documentation and replacement.
What is vaccine borrowing?
All temperature excursions should be reported to the Immunization Division within this time frame.
What is 24 hours?
Children are eligible for VFC if they meet these criteria.
What is being 18 years old or younger and either Medicaid-eligible, uninsured/underinsured, or an American Indian/Alaskan Native?
This term refers to the vaccine advocate/cheerleader for the provider's office.
What is an immunization champion?
This is the name of the user-friendly concept that allows Hoosiers to access their own immunization records.
What is MyvaxIndiana?
This person is responsible for ensuring that vaccines are stored and handled correctly.
What is the Primary Vaccine Coordinator?
All vaccine orders received should be entered into this system.
What is the Vaccine Order Management System (VOMS)?
These are the locations where uninsured children may receive VFC vaccines.
What are FQHCs, RHCs, or their deputized providers?
This would be the ultimate goal of the IQIP program.
What is increasing vaccination coverage rates?
This CHIRP feature keeps children up to date and on schedule for their vaccinations.
What is vaccine forecasting?
Open vials of multi-dose vials should not be wasted before this date.
What is the expiration date on the box?
This must be done at the start and finish of every clinic day to ensure vaccine storage units are functioning correctly.
What is checking the minimum and maximum temperatures of the storage units?
This group's recommendations guide the CDC and the VFC program on which vaccines to provide.
What is the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)?
This is the minimum number of quality improvement strategies providers must select during an IQIP visit.
What is two?
This policy states that all providers enrolled in a publicly funded program are required to use the IIS.
What is Policy 15?
This policy provides guidance for provider disenrollment
What is Policy #5 (Provider agreement dissolution)
This is the temperature range that refrigerated vaccines must be stored at.
What is between 36°F and 46°F (2°C to 8°C)
This is the approximate number of VFC-enrolled providers in Indiana (+/- 25).
What is 924?
This is the age reviewed for the childhood cohort of the IQIP program.
What is 24-35 months?
These nine factors are required to be reported for all administered doses reported to CHIRP.
What are:
Patient’s first and last name, date of birth, address, race, gender, VFC eligibility, vaccination presentation, date administered, and lot number of the administered vaccine
This document is required for all VFC providers and explains how vaccines will be received, stored, handled, monitored, and what to do in case of power failure or other event.
What is the Vaccine Management Plan?
This policy addresses the root cause of temperature excursions.
What is Policy #11 (Storage and Handling - Cold Chain Failure)