Are you sure? Also a mid-30s male and my PPO insurance covered it fully last year, no copay, coded as preventative. Call your health insurance and ask about “CPT code 90651”.
I was super annoyed as a teen and young adult when they kept opening the window for when you could receive it for a few years younger than me. My understanding is the manufacturers didn’t want to market an STD vaccine so Cervical cancer it was. Never mind men could transmit and harbor it. Guarding all susceptible parties just didn’t work with how they were going to market it.
There's no point to this. Health insurance providers are explicitly exempted from having to be truthful with you about coverage. The better ones will just tell you they don't answer coverage questions at all as a blanket policy; the rest will tell you whatever they think profits them the most.
citation needed? What entity rules that they are explicitly exempted?
If anything, I'd be more annoyed about the 3-shots and repeated trips, vice a <200 charge; time is money, too.
They seem to be expanding the recommendation to wider and wider groups, was told the insurance company pretty much assumed you had HPV over a certain age and wouldn't cover it.
NowI'm pretty sure any adult with insurance can get it through any pharmacy that does vaccines. I think the actuarial tables must have changed or the cost of the vaccine decreased.