This is Your Shot: Be a Vaccine Champion to your Patients with Diabetes!

AACE supports the recommendations of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) that all persons with diabetes mellitus receive age-appropriate vaccinations according to the CDC/ACIP schedule. AACE also recommends endocrinologists learn about and implement the CDC’s Standards for Adult Immunization Practice, which describes a four-step process to improve vaccination rates.

AACE is part of a consortium of medical specialty societies funded through CDC and supported by CMSS to provide vaccination resources to healthcare providers who treat adults with diabetes, including practice tools, resources, learning opportunities, clinical practice guidance, and quality improvement initiatives.

Using the CDC’s Standards and AACE’s Vaccine Tools, endocrinologists can be vaccine champions to patients with diabetes.

AACE Advancing Immunizations
Learn about AACE recommended vaccines and the CDC’s Standards for Adult Immunization Practice
Endocrine experts Ricardo Correa, MD, FACP, FACMQ, FAPCR, FACE; Rajesh Garg, MD, PhD; and Geetha Gopalakrishnan, MD, FACE, as they share valuable tips and success stories on how to talk to patients with diabetes about the importance of vaccinations in diabetes management. (NEW: 10/2023)

Listen to AACE endocrine leader, Dr. Ricardo Correa, and coding expert Cindy Hughes share immunization coding rules, tips, and cases to help health care professionals make changes in their coding practices. Please keep in mind that vaccine administration codes can change annually and have changed for 2024. Please see AACE’s 2024 Updated Coding Toolkit and Resources. 

AACE Advancing Immunizations: Billing and Coding for Vaccination-Related Services for Patients with Diabetes

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Quality Improvement Projects

As part of the AACE Advancing Immunizations Project, we are partnering with several health systems to conduct a series of Quality Improvement Projects designed to improve routine immunization assessment; provider vaccine recommendations, immunization services, patient care procedures, and immunization documentation.

AACE's Health System Partners are:
  • Brown Medicine and Lifespan Corporation
  • Cleveland Clinic -Health Equity and Initiatives Institutes EMI
  • Houston Methodist
  • Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
  • Prisma Health Center Endocrinology Specialists and Thyroid Center
  • University of California, Los Angeles Gonda (Goldschmied) Diabetes Center
  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas Health

The National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC) revised the Standards for Adult Immunization Practice in 2013. View the most recent Standards for Adult Immunization Practice on the CDC website. These updated standards call on ALL healthcare professionals — whether they provide vaccinations or not — to take steps to help ensure that their adult patients are fully immunized. These steps are as follows:

ASSESS immunization status of all your patients at every clinical encounter.

    Strongly RECOMMEND vaccines that patients need.

      ADMINISTER your patients to a vaccination provider.

        REFER your patients to a vaccination provider.

          DOCUMENT vaccines received by your patients.

            Be a Vaccine Champion to your Patients with Diabetes!

            Impact the health of your adult patients with diabetes by ensuring they receive up-to-date vaccinations, including those for influenza and COVID-19.
            Use these resources and tools to improve your patients’ vaccination coverage.

            CDC Immunization Recommendations for Adults with Diabetes AACE Immunization Recommendations Provider Pocket Guide AACE Vaccination Tool for Patients: Vaccine Bingo Card AACE Coding Toolkit CDC’s Standards for Adult Immunization Practice Institute of Healthcare Improvement
            Quality Toolkit

             

            Learn from your colleagues who are working with AACE on Vaccination Quality Improvement Initiatives