Do Doctors make money when giving vaccines?

Posted October 22nd, 2009 by Kemp

I do not know what the process is here. What does a flu shot or other general vaccination cost?

How much of this is taken home by the typical doctor giving the shot?

How much is made by the manufacturer?

These are some good questions to have answered for due diligence purposes. If an entity has an economic interest in a certain action, they are less likely to outwardly speak towards diligent factors against taking such an action.

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I think it depends on which vaccine they are providing and

On October 22nd, 2009 Kinsjon says:

how much stock they own in the manufacturing company.

No. There is a nurse administration fee when shot is done....

On October 22nd, 2009 SteveMT says:

in a doctor's office, plus the cost of the vaccine. The physician makes makes nothing if they are family practitioners. However, the pediatricians do generate income from their vaccine administration, at least they did two years ago when I was in a private group practice.

Many billable office visits are for vaccine administration

On October 22nd, 2009 loumiller21nj says:

Not sure about the doctor's profit from the shot administration itself, but these shots justify otherwise unnecessary visits to the doctor that are definitely profitable to them.

Since my 4 year old son does not get any vaccines he only goes to the pediatrician's office on average once/year, that means that the doctor only gets to collect about $150-$200 per year from him.

The children his age that are receiving vaccines are going at least 2 times just to get their flu shots for preschool - plus more visits for the 7 other vaccine boosters they are required to get at this age. Suppose that amounts to 6 total visits for shots plus an estimate of 2 more for illness, that is 8 visits at $150-$200 per visit amounts to $1200-$1600 in revenue for one 4 year old patient.

Based on those numbers it is no surprise that pediatricians in NJ often do not accept patients that are not following the CDC vaccine schedule.

No idea

On October 22nd, 2009 UKLooney says:

No idea of the figures, but I'm guessing mostly it will be clinics who are paid to do mass inoculations. I'm guessing around $10 a shot. As for the manufacturer, maybe around $5 a shot?

Yes, money...

On October 22nd, 2009 SusanneV says:

and future patients.

Media saying that the elderly are barely affected by H1N1

On October 22nd, 2009 Boru says:

Sorry to go off topic, but it bothers me when the media says that children are very suseptible to H1N1 yet the elderly aren't. My conspiracy red flag shot up.

The media knows that people are pretty influenced by the media. So when they say the elderly isn't affected by H1N1, that will give lots of elderly an excuse to not take the vaccine...as if that is what the government media wants.

If the H1N1 virus is real, this means the elderly will die of quicker; thus lowering social security payments that the gov has to pay out...not to mention lowering the wisdom that the elderly would pass down (including 'do not trust the government').

If the H1N1 is fake (as Ron Paul implied), then the gov is trying to mostly get kids to take the vaccine. Why?