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The Carryover Issue in Section 317 Expenditures
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... and the vaccine purchase system authorized under Section 317 of the Public Health Services Act. The federal government also helps finance the delivery of immunization services though Medicaid (which provides coverage for vaccines for adults as well as for recommended vaccines that are not yet covered through a VFC contract)
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... In the aftermath of the rapid and unplanned build-up of Section 317 FA funds, significant amounts of carryover emerged within the state immunization budgets. Although the states had acquired extensive expenence over several decades in working with the federal DA vaccine purchase fiends, the large increases in support for additional immunization services appeared in areas that required new efforts (such as outreach, record assessment, performance measures, and the development of immunization registries)


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