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CDC's ACIP recommends against 'nasal spray' flu vaccine for next season
ATLANTA - The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on Wednesday voted that live attenuated influenza vaccine, also known as the “nasal spray” flu vaccine, should not be used during the 2016-2017 flu season.
ACIP continues to recommend annual flu vaccination, with either the inactivated influenza vaccine or recombinant influenza vaccine, for everyone 6 months and older.
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Congress calls on CMS to finalize DIR guidance
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - As many as 16 United States Senators and 30 members of the House of Representatives recently wrote to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, urging the agency to finalize its proposed guidance on how Medicare prescription drug plan sponsors report pharmacy price concessions, often referred to as direct and indirect remuneration (DIR) fees, to provide more accurate information to beneficiaries, pharmacies and the federal government.