Yes the prices were excessive. No, most insurance does NOT cover travel vaccines, only those vaccines which the ACIP considers routine for wellness. If the patient had not had a DTaP ever then that would likely be covered. The OP did not say he had gotten an influenza vaccine from the travel doctor. In fact the 2014 flu shot is not even available at this time. The ACIP list is age dependent. So simply asking if the office accepted the patient's insurance would not have changed whether the patient would be responsible for the cost of travel vaccines, although there may have been a required write off on the shots and the office fee. And while I am very aware of the domination of the ruling family, there is nothing about the term Tri-County which points to them. As the community is in fact named "the villages" I would doubt that the Morse family could even control the use of that term any more than they could Sumter County in the naming of a business. As long as there was no intent to defraud...
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