Other analysis has found that children who experienced a disruption in coverage had lower vaccination coverage as compared with those with continuous insurance[ 12, 13].
He vowed then to "prevent another disruption in coverage like the one we are seeing now".
It approved an amendment by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, to protect children against the disruption of coverage they receive under the Children's Health Insurance Program.
On Sunday, CVS put out a statement saying that it would, in "some circumstances and based on clinical considerations", assist patients with a transitional supply of prescriptions, to those "experiencing a temporary disruption in coverage to support their continuity of care".
Little is known about insurance instability as specifically measured by the number of disruptions in coverage and the effect of those disruptions on health care delivery.
Our results go beyond the previous study to suggest that disruptions in coverage were associated with local baseline policies that determined whether provider practices needed to be modified in response to the birth dose suspension, and with how different provider groups changed the timing of hepatitis B vaccine doses in response to the suspension.
"The disruption of cellphone coverage and Internet on the 28th exacerbated the unrest in at least three major ways," he writes.
"We continue to believe that changes are needed to the health care reform law in order to minimize coverage disruptions and cost increases for families and employers," said Robert Zirkelbach, press secretary for AHIP.
Disruptions in Medicaid coverage are common,[ 1] even among individuals with chronic diseases[ 2].
We conclude that substantially delaying the timing of the first hepatitis B vaccination dose in response to the nationally recommended birth dose suspension may be associated with downstream disruptions in immunization coverage.
