August 08, 2022 - Harrisburg, PA
The Pennsylvania departments of Education, Health, Human Services and Insurance are reminding families to ensure their children's immunizations are up to date as part of back-to-school preparations. Vaccine-preventable diseases, such as chicken pox, meningitis, measles, whooping cough, and others are still seen across the commonwealth. Keeping children up to date on vaccinations is the best way to keep them healthy and reduce unnecessary absences from school. Staying up to date with immunizations provides the best protection against disease and is essential to individual and population health.Under the Affordable Care Act, most insurance plans, including those bought through Pennie®, as well as the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Medicaid, are required to cover school vaccinations as a free preventive service without charging a copayment or coinsurance.List of Speakers Acting Insurance Commissioner Michael Humphreys Acting Secretary of Health and Pennsylvania Physician General Dr. Denise Johnson Acting Secretary Eric Hagarty
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