---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 441.605"
title: "42"
number: "441.605"
heading: "General requirements."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/441.605"
---

# §441.605. General requirements.

- (a) Federally-purchased vaccines under the VFC Program are made available to children who are 18 years of age or younger and who are any of the following:
  - (1) **Eligible for Medicaid.**
  - (2) **Not insured.**
  - (3) Not insured with respect to the vaccine and who are administered pediatric vaccines by a federally qualified health center (FQHC) or rural health clinic.
  - (4) **An Indian, as defined in section 4 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.**
- (b) Under the VFC program, vaccines must be administered by program-registered providers. Section 1928(c) of the Act defines a program-registered provider as any health care provider that meets the following requirements:
  - (1) Is licensed or authorized to administer pediatric vaccines under the law of the state in which the administration occurs without regard to whether or not the provider is a Medicaid-participating provider.
  - (2) **Submits to the state an executed provider agreement in the form and manner specified by the Secretary.**
  - (3) Has not been found, by the Secretary or the state to have violated the provider agreement or other applicable requirements established by the Secretary or the state.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 77 FR 66700, Nov. 6, 2012, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 45229, Sept. 29, 1978, unless otherwise noted.