Flu shot price gouging reported
Jack Bond’s hospital pharmacy needed projectiles 2800 flu, but his supplier was unable to provide. Many other distributors for its needs, though - for a price not less than $ 600 for a vial of 10 projectiles of bird flu, which normally costs about $ 80.
With no other choice, officials Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kan., thought about paying that price “as a last resort,” said Bond, the hospital pharmacy director.
Fortunately, other health providers in the area helped rescue, sharing their supplies.
Around the country, health officials say, some trying to provide funds on flu shot shortage.
In Colorado, where hospitals have been offered vaccine for about $ 100 per shot, police investigations against the theft of 60 boxes of vaccine - enough for 620 children - a suburban Denver medical office.
In south Florida, one hospital was told, the price of $ 140 would be a coup, according to vaccine manufacturers Aventis Pasteur, which is currently the only company to influenza projectiles this year.
And what are the prices for hospitals. Normally, a consumer can pay as little as $ 20 for a shot of avian flu, according the site.
Hospitals and health officials of the Confederation were caught off-guard early in the season of avian influenza, the nation when other major vaccine manufacturers, Chiron Corp., announced it would not be measure of the estimated 48 million registrations expected this year. It’s almost half the health care federal officials had taken into account.
The British government banned the Chiron plant in Liverpool’s navy of its vaccine because of contamination problems.
Because it takes months to develop vaccine, Aventis can no longer appropriate for the vaccine against avian flu season. Aventis has about 55.4 million doses for this season is not enough to go around. The government is negotiating with other vaccine makers hope, shaking loose a bit more.
If a stroke of bird flu leaves the factory, Aventis charges $ 8.50 for them, and the company suggests, it has not dealt with, given that the price of Chiron’s announcement. But prices may increase slightly under the existing distribution system, the vaccine can travel by the manufacturer through the man, before it reaches a hospital or Doctor’s Office.
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