{"id":66171,"date":"2026-07-01T11:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T01:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66171"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:55:15","slug":"vaccinate-or-lose-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66171","title":{"rendered":"Vaccinate Or Lose Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Vaccinate_Or_Lose_Money.jpg\" alt=\"Vaccinate Or Lose Money\" width=\"522\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Vaccinate_Or_Lose_Money.jpg 522w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Vaccinate_Or_Lose_Money-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I asked Perplexity.com, &#8220;Are American doctors incentivized by Blue Cross\/Blue Shield to have a certain percentage of the patients vaccinated?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It replied, &#8220;Generally, no: Blue Cross\/Blue Shield companies do not pay doctors a simple bonus just for hitting a fixed vaccination percentage or quota across all patients. Fact-checks and BCBS statements say any incentives are typically part of broader value-based contracts that reward multiple quality measures, not vaccination alone.<\/p>\n<p>There are, however, some specific programs where an independent Blue Cross Blue Shield plan has offered vaccination-related incentives tied to thresholds. For example, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid in Kentucky offered a 2021 COVID-19 Vaccine Provider Incentive program that paid bonuses when a practice reached set percentages of vaccinated members, with payments ranging from $20 to $250 per vaccinated member depending on the threshold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hardest thing for most people to confront is evil. Especially when it wears a white coat and you are trained to believe it has your best health interests at heart. A $250 incentive to give you a shot, over and above the consultation fee, across several hundred patients, adds up quickly.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to convince a man of a truth when his income is dependent on him believing a lie.<\/p>\n<p>It takes a high level of awareness and courage to face the possibility that what &#8216;experts&#8217; in their field have told you for years might be based on false data they have been given and the fact that their income depends on them believing that false data.<\/p>\n<p>That is why I greatly respect medical professionals who do their own research and speak out with truth against the medical establishment&#8217;s vaccine propaganda. I have shared a few of their stories on my &#8216;Vaccination Data And References&#8217; blog post. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=3835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=3835<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I asked Perplexity.com, &#8220;Are American doctors incentivized by Blue Cross\/Blue Shield to have a certain percentage of the patients vaccinated?&#8221; It replied, &#8220;Generally, no: Blue Cross\/Blue Shield companies do not pay doctors a simple bonus just for hitting a fixed vaccination percentage or quota across all patients. Fact-checks and BCBS statements say any incentives &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vaccinate Or Lose Money&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66176,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66171\/revisions\/66176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}