Why do some people think that pediatricians make a big vaccine bonus from Blue Cross Blue Shield for vaccinating and protecting their patients?
The usual suspects…
About the Blue Cross Blue Shield Vaccine Bonus for Pediatricians
News that some pediatricians are making an extra $40,000 to $80,000 by simply vaccinating and protecting their patients might make some pediatricians a little aggressive.
But only because they would be left wondering why they aren’t getting any of these big bonus checks!
Why not?
Because they don’t exist.
“This means that a 5-doctor pediatric practice, if they reach 100% compliance on vaccinations, will receive a bonus of just over $3,000,000 (that’s not a typo, my math is right, that’s $3 million bucks!!)*.”
JB Handley
Anti-vaccine influencers have been misusing reports of these kinds of vaccine incentives for a long time now. They likely believe them because they make big money selling you supplements, books, subscriptions, and tickets to attend seminars, etc.
Pediatric providers, typically the lowest paid health care providers, don’t make a lot of money from these kinds of large vaccine incentives though.
Incentives that, a BCBS spokesperson has said:
- were capped at $9,500 per provider, so no one could have made $40,000 or $80,000 or $3 million!
- were at the minimum $400 level for some providers
- are only available for short periods of time in very small, regional markets where vaccination rates might be low – this one, for example ran in Michigan for BCBS providers in 2016.
And to be clear, these are simply incentives to help make sure children are following the recommended childhood immunization schedule.
Incentives, if they were real, which might actually keep pediatricians from firing families that don’t vaccinate their kids!
Incentives that Anti-Vaccine Influencers Get
Now if you are truly concerned that your pediatrician might be influenced by a $400 payment for helping you get vaccinated and protected, then you should be even more concerned about all of the money anti-vaccine influencers get for scaring you away from vaccines!
In just one recent year, for example, consider that:
- Pierre Kory – made $368,815 from the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance
- Paul Marik – made $400,000 from the Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance
- Simone Gold – made $581,000 from America’s Frontline Doctors
- Del Bigtree – made $284,000 from the Informed Consent Action Network
- Robert F Kennedy, Jr – made over $500,000 from the Children’s Health Defense
In addition to publishing misinformation about vaccines, many of these folks are behind the idea that ivermectin can treat COVID.
So as you can see, some people have learned how to make a lot of money being anti-vaccine.
They overwhelm you with memes and stories of vaccine dangers to build an audience, and then they sell you unnecessary supplements and detox kits! Or just make money from ads on YouTube, X (Twitter), and Instagram.
We know the game they play.
More on Vaccination Incentives
- That $3 Million Vaccine Bonus for Pediatricians
- Were Doctors Bribed to Give COVID Vaccines?
- Money and Motivation of the Anti-Vaccine Movement
- What Are the Greatest Tricks Anti-Vaccine Folks Use to Persuade Parents to Skip Vaccines?
- Ask 8 Questions Before You Skip a Vaccine
- The Wellness Company: How antivaccine grift becomes plain old quackery
- Anti-vaxxers make up to $1.1 billion for social media companies
- Tax records reveal the lucrative world of covid misinformation
- Michigan incentive program for children’s vaccines paid far less than $40,000 to individual providers
- No, Blue Cross Blue Shield physicians aren’t paid a bonus to meet a vaccine quota
- Incentive programs for physicians are built around quality metrics, not just volume
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Does NOT Pay Doctors A Bonus Only For Number of Children Vaccinated
- Posts exaggerate insurance incentives for child vaccinations
- Misleading post claims that doctors get bonuses for meeting vaccination quotas
- Peter McCullough makes multiple false, misleading, and unsupported claims about COVID-19 vaccine safety and efficacy in viral podcast