Vaccine counseling simply means advising a patient on the facts about a disease and its vaccine, and potentially nudging them toward choosing to get the vaccine if they’re on the fence. Proponents of the CMS program for vaccine counseling on COVID-19 said that doctors were spending an inordinate amount of time answering questions and advising their patients about the vaccines for the virus, and that compensating them for that time made sense and allowed them to do their jobs better.
