Draft Senate Approps Report Presses CMS To Expand Health Worker Flu Vaccine Efforts

Senate Democrats attached language to a pending Labor/HHS funding bill that calls on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand a program that encourages health care worker flu vaccinations -- an issue that has been controversial with labor unions that do not want workers to be be pushed into taking flu shots, though a key union supports voluntary measures to increase flu vaccination rates.