Key Democrats Object to HHS Dropping Child Vaccination Metric

Top ranking Congressional Democrats sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Thursday urging the agency to reverse its exclusion of childhood vaccination rates as a key metric in federal data on children’s health and well-being.

Senate Finance ranking member Ron Wyden (R-Ore.) and House Energy and Commerce Committee ranking member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) object to the decision to ax childhood vaccination rates from a CMS data set that is part of quality measures in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. These measures help the agency and states understand how health care is administered ...