We've been working for a while with our doctor's office--trying to get this Shingles vaccine. If you are a Medicare recipient, and have the Part D Rx Plan it is covered. Our problem is that my husband has Medicare primary-Aetna thru retirement as secondary and our drug plan is also through retirement (Caremark)and he does not have Part D. I have Aetna primary as I am not Medicare age yet. Took a while to get them to understand that we could not go to the pharmacy--pick up vaccine and bring to their office for injection. (They wanted us to do this as they have picked it up for patients who never came to office to get injection-) Our Aetna will pay for both our vaccines but they have to be billed through a physician's office--- They have placed an order for the vaccine but apparently they were told by the "vaccine company" that there is a shortage and that it won't be available until around Oct/Nov. It has been ordered and will be kept in the physician office freezer until we get there to receive it. My husband and I really want this injection---both his parents had shingles on face--near their eyes- Know of so many people who have agonized with this pain for years after having shingles. My mother also had them on chest--was there to pick her up to take her to Cardiologist when she showed me the blisters and I knew what she had.
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