I was changing insurance companies last year (for this year) and wanted to get a shingles shot before the end of the year. (If there is a preventative vaccine, I believe in getting it, plus there was new information coming out recommending this vaccine at a younger age.) I was traveling out of my home state to TV and my physician offered to call in a prescription when I decided where I would have this administered. It was around the Christmas holidays and I could not find a walk-in place around TV that would do this. I learned that FL has some sort of regulation that prevents places like Publix and CVS from administering a shingles shot to a person under the age of 60. ????? I would have had to find the equivalent of a primary care physician to get the shot, which was not going to happen with the holidays.
I finally got my shingles shot earlier this year, in Georgia, at my local Costco. I expected to pay right around $200. Regardless of my new high deductible health plan, I have zero co-pay, and since this is considered preventative, it was covered 100% by our Blue Cross plan. A pleasant surprise and now done.
The postscript to this is that my 35 year old son was diagnosed with shingles this summer.
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