The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is poised to no longer recommend a particular form of vaccine against measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox, which will have sweeping implications for insurance coverage .

Members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices indicated at a meeting on Thursday that they are likely to decide that the less commonly used combined vaccine against measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella, commonly known as the MMRV vaccine, should not be given to children under age four due to heightened seizure risk.

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