Providers can seek reimbursement from a person's health insurance for a 'vaccine administration fee,' but individuals aren't supposed to receive a bill.
Charge an office visit or some other fee to the recipient if the only service provided is a vaccination.
PHOTO: In this March 24, 2021, file photo, California Assemblyman Rob Bonta speaks during a news conference shortly after California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his nomination for state's attorney general in San Francisco. PHOTO:Payton Nguyen, 12, receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Lakera Thorne at Providence Edwards Lifesciences vaccination site in Santa Ana, Calif., , May 13, 2021.
"It covers nurses, doctors, all of the things that it takes to set it up," Unity Health CEO Vincent Keane told ABC News. "The medical assistants that give out the vaccinations, they were pulled from seeing patients, so that costs us money. The vaccines are free, but setting them up and doing them, transferring them -- all of that costs money.