A health insurance policy from Humana may cover flu shots, but it depends on the specific plan of coverage that you have and whether it includes a preventive medicine component. The only way to know for sure is to contact your insurance customer service representative and ask about your specific plan's benefits.
Most plans do cover some portion of immunizations and the Humana plans for Medicare beneficiaries do cover flu vaccinations.
In addition, some plans will cover the cost of the vaccine but may pay none or only some portion of the costs for the administration of the vaccination (the charges a provider may add to cover the costs of the equipment, like syringes, and the costs of the time the clinician uses to give the flu shot or other form of flu vaccination). There may also be co-payments involved for you to pay even if it is a covered service.
You will need to call your insurance provider to determine what they cover.
The Affordable Healthcare made flu shots part of preventive requirements - but, you need to make sure that you are going to a provider covered by your insurance.Members should check the back of their Humana ID card to see if they have flu vaccine coverage under their plan. If you do go to an in network provider and it will be no cost. If you don't have coverage or you go to an out of network provider Humana won't pay.
interval- flu vaccine and the shingles vaccine
Yes, you can get flu vaccine and varicella vaccine at the same time.
Q-pan is the approved vaccine for Avian Flu or H5N1.
I have Humana coverage with Blount County schools in Maryville, TN. I am 63 years old. Does Humana cover the cost of the shot?
The flu vaccine is recommended for children and the elderly but nobody is forced to get it. Whether or not to get a flu vaccine is a personal choice.
how long is flu vaccine good for if left out of the refrigerator
no
You are not immune to Influenza. Even getting the yearly flu vaccine is no guarantee that a person won't get the flu. You can get the flu but it won't be as bad as it could be if you hadn't received the flu vaccine.
yes, if it is for the same vaccine, but not if it is for a new vaccine against a different flu
No. These viruses mutate rapidly and you can not get one vaccine for all of the subtypes.
Each flu vaccine is targeted to specific varieties of the flu virus. Unless another type of flu is very similar to the targeted virus, it will not be prevented with that vaccine. Having said that, since the 2010-2011 flu season through to the current 2011-2012 season, the "regular" seasonal flu vaccine, which always contains three types of flu vaccine (trivalent), has included the swine flu along with the other two varieties to which the vaccine was targeted. So in that sense, at least currently, the swine flu vaccination is effective against the regular flu since vaccines for each type are put together in one vaccination.