Details the Medicaid match, Medicaid managed care organization contract negotiation, making the case to Medicaid, and general information on Medicaid and quitlines.
Provides guidance on considerations for implementing cessation coverage, removing policies that act as barriers to treatment, and communicating clearly about the benefit.
Aims to increase Rhode Island health care providers’ awareness and understanding of cessation pharmacotherapy and counseling benefits covered under fee-for-service Medicaid and the state’s three Medicaid managed care plans.
Highlights Vermont’s Medicaid-public health collaboration to increase provider reimbursement for counseling and enrollment of Medicaid clients in the state’s tobacco quitline.
Includes lessons from Maryland’s implementation of the Medicaid Match for Quitline services.