Publication date: Jul 16, 2025
The COVID-19 Claims Reimbursement for Vaccine Administration for the Uninsured Programme (COVID-19 Uninsured Programme), a novel, short-term federal initiative, reimbursed providers for healthcare-related expenses incurred through the vaccination of individuals without healthcare coverage. The present study aimed to characterise the use of the COVID-19 Uninsured Programme in California and estimate the effect of the end of the programme on vaccine administration. California vaccine providers who received reimbursements through 5 April 2022 (the programme end date) were linked to providers in the state immunisation registry. Generalised synthetic control methods were used to estimate the effect of the end of the programme on COVID-19 vaccine administration rates during the ensuing 8 weeks in counties with the highest (>3%) versus lowest (
| Concepts | Keywords |
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| April | HEALTH POLICY |
| California | METHODS |
| Counties | VACCINATION |
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| Vaccination |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 |