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National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Office on Smoking and Health
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E-mail: tobaccoinfo@cdc.gov
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Coverage for Tobacco Use Cessation Treatments
Designing Health Insurance Benefits
Useful Resources for Designing Benefits
- Sample purchasing specifications, which
provide valuable contract language that can be used by employers and purchasers to
structure benefits related to tobacco-use prevention and cessation, are available to
assist states in implementing evidence-based tobacco-dependence treatment and improve
Medicaid contracts. These
sample specifications,
developed by CDC in conjunction with
George Washington University Center for Health Services Research and Policy, are
available at http://www.gwhealthpolicy.org/newsps/tobacco.
- Build a Financial Infrastructure: Health
Plan Benefits and Provider Reimbursement combines evidence-based
recommendations with the experiences of the Pacific Center on Health and Tobacco
(PCHT), a consortium of five western states (California, Oregon, Washington,
Arizona, and Hawaii) concerning tobacco cessation benefits and provider
reimbursement. The report is designed to guide planning and decision-making by
states and other groups that are working to implement tobacco cessation programs.
Also available are two summaries: (1) Health Insurance Benefits for Treatment
of Tobacco Dependence and (2) Invest in Tobacco Cessation for a Healthy,
Productive Workforce. Visit the PCHT Web site at
http://www.paccenter.org.
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Employers' Smoking Cessation Guide:
Practical Approaches to a Costly Workplace Problem, a guide published by
the Professional Assisted Cessation Therapy (PACT) consortium for large and small
employers interested in enacting an affordable, effective smoking cessation program,
is available at http://www.endsmoking.org.
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Reimbursement for Smoking Cessation Therapy:
A Health Care Practitioner's Guide, published by the Professional
Assisted Cessation Therapy (PACT) consortium for health care providers on how to
obtain reimbursement for cessation services can be helpful to employers in the
implementation of a tobacco cessation benefit. It is available at
http://www.endsmoking.org.
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Data on insurance status and type
(national and by state) from a survey conducted jointly by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics and the Bureau of the Census are located at
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthins.html.
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Coverage of Smoking Cessation Treatment by
Union Health and Welfare Funds [Barbeau E, Li Y, et al. American Journal
of Public Health 2001; 91(9):1412-1415]. This article presents the results of a survey
to determine the level of insurance coverage for smoking cessation treatment and factors
associated with coverage among health and welfare funds affiliated with a large labor union.
Information on purchasing a copy of this article is located at
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/91/9/1412.
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Data concerning changes in coverage of tobacco-dependence
treatments by state Medicaid programs from a study conducted by the Center for Health and
Public Policy Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and links to publications addressing
health insurance policy and tobacco control are available at
http://chpps.berkeley.edu/smoking/index.htm.
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A guide to purchasing prevention benefits
that was developed for employers in North Carolina by North Carolina Prevention Partners
contains information that may be helpful to employers in other states. The guide can be
found at http://www.ncpreventionpartners.org/.
Resources Useful for Employers
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Making Your Workplace Smokefree: A Decisionmaker's Guide
provides information on the costs of tobacco use to employers. The entire guide or selected chapters are available
in PDF format at
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/secondhand_smoke/workplace_guide.htm.
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Quitline Resource Guide, published by CDC's
Office on Smoking and Health, provides information on contracting for quitline services and key components
of quitline services, such as counseling, staffing, quality assurance, promotion, and evaluation.
The guide (in press when this document was published) will be available at
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco.
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Linking a Network: Integrate Quitlines with Health
Care Systems, published by the Pacific Center on Health and Tobacco, describes the
importance of linking state quitlines with health care systems and presents case studies describing
linkages with health care systems. This resource (in press when this document was published) will
be available at http://www.paccenter.org.
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A Quick Reference Guide to Effective Tobacco Cessation
Treatments and Activities and other resources are available from the Center for Tobacco C
essation's (CTC) Web site.
CTC, which is jointly funded by the American Cancer Society and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
serves as a source of science-based information on cessation and works with national partners to
expand the use of effective tobacco dependence treatment and activities.
- Information on tobacco cessation counseling can be found
on the
American Cancer Society Web site
located at
http://www.cancer.org.
Type "cancer AND counseling" in the search box located in the upper right corner of the home page.
- Information on tobacco cessation and the effects of tobacco use on
specific populations can be found on the
American Lung Association Web site located at
http://www.lungusa.org.
Page last reviewed 02/28/2007
Page last modified 02/28/2007