CMS Increases Efforts to Help Medicare Beneficiaries Make Greater Use of Preventive Services

With flu season upon us, now’s the time to urge our patients and staff members who haven’t yet been vaccinated against influenza to get their flu shots. Although Medicare covers the vaccinations, flu shots remain an underutilized benefit, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reports. This is worrisome news, since the flu kills an estimated 36,000 Americans yearly—and the majority of deaths are among older adults.

To help older people understand which vaccinations they need and when to get them, the American Geriatrics Society Foundation for Health in Aging re...