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27-8. Insurance coverage of cessation treatment

Cessation and Treatment

ORIGINAL OBJECTIVE
27-8. Increase insurance coverage of evidence-based treatment for nicotine dependency.
Target and baseline:
Objective Increase in Insurance Coverage of Evidence-Based Treatment for Nicotine Dependency 1998
Baseline
(unless noted) 		2010
Target
Percent
27-8a. Managed care organizations 75 (1997—98) 100
Number
27-8b. Medicaid programs in States and the District of Columbia 24 51
27-8c. All insurance Developmental
Target setting method: Total coverage of FDA-approved pharmacotherapies and behavioral therapies.
Data source s: Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care Survey, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; (Medicaid data) Health Policy Tracking Service, National Conference of State Legislators.
OBJECTIVE WITH REVISIONS (Including Subobjective Proposed for Deletion)
27-8. Increase insurance coverage of evidence-based treatment for nicotine dependency.
Target and baseline:
Objective† Increase in Insurance Coverage of Evidence-Based Treatment for Nicotine Dependency 1998
Baseline
(unless noted) 		2010
Target
Percent
27-8a. Managed care organizations 75 (1997—98) 100
Number
27-8b. Medicaid programs in States and the District of Columbia 24 51
27-8c. (Subobjective proposed for deletion due to unreliable data source)† All insurance  Developmental
†(For data control purposes, subobjectives are not renumbered.) Read information regarding the deletion of an objective due to lack of data source.
Target setting method: Total coverage of FDA-approved pharmacotherapies and behavioral therapies.
Data source s: Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care Survey (managed care data), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; (Medicaid data) Health Policy Tracking Service (Medicaid data), National Conference of State Legislators. 
REVISED OBJECTIVE
27-8. Increase insurance coverage of evidence-based treatment for nicotine dependency.
Target and baseline:
Objective† Increase in Insurance Coverage of Evidence-Based Treatment for Nicotine Dependency 1998
Baseline
(unless noted) 		2010
Target
Percent
27-8a. Managed care organizations 75 (1997—98) 100
Number
27-8b. Medicaid programs in States and the District of Columbia 24 51
†(For data control purposes, subobjectives are not renumbered.)
Target setting method: Total coverage of FDA-approved pharmacotherapies and behavioral therapies.
Data source s: Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care Survey (managed care data), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Health Policy Tracking Service (Medicaid data), National Conference of State Legislators.

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