Streamlining and increasing coverage of tobacco treatment and services, promoting use of covered treatment benefits, and addressing health disparities by improving access to tobacco treatment for people with behavioral health conditions.
Facilitating uniform tobacco cessation benefits for Medicaid enrollees and developing comprehensive provider and public awareness campaigns to promote covered benefits and services.
Provides a detailed description of an intervention intended to address health disparities among heart failure patients.
Identifies several common approaches that state tobacco control programs may consider when pursuing pharmacotherapy reimbursements in partnership with their Medicaid agencies and quitline service providers.
Describes how two states, Kansas and Missouri, piloted use of the American Lung Association’s Guide to Assessing Tobacco Cessation Coverage in Health Plans and received preliminary results.