01/06/2026
The massive incentives for pediatricians to vaccinate may finally be ending. We published this article in 2021: "Vaccine Practice Payment Schedules Create Perverse Incentives for Unnecessary Medical Procedures – at What Cost to Patients?"
James Lyons-Weiler, PhD and Paul Thomas, MD. This article showed my practice lost a million dollars in administrative fees when parents chose not to follow the CDC schedule.
In addition to administrative fees, doctors get bonuses for having a highly vaccinated population and can be penalized economically, loss of contracts and even lose their medical license if not following the CDC childhood schedule.
With this change, perhaps the bullying of parents by pediatricians will stop. When they are no longer incentivized to give more vaccines regardless of the data on safety being totally inadequate perhaps more honest discussions will take place and the honoring of parent’s authority over what happens to their children can return.
How Federal Policy Is Beginning to Expose Vaccine Payment Incentives in Pediatrics
