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Originally Posted by Waverunner

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.

Be sure to say "Thank you" to the Affordable Care Act. Preventative shots are covered by it.