State Tobacco Cessation Coverage Database - Factsheets and Reports

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American Lung Association Reports

Implementing Tobacco Quality Measures through Medicaid Incentive Payments in Oregon: A Case Study This case study tells the story of Oregon’s innovative development of Coordinated Care Organizations and the utilization of quality measures and Electronic Health Records to implement a tobacco prevalence and cessation incentive metric. The collaborative work between the state Medicaid Office and the Public Health Division resulted in a comprehensive cessation benefit for all Oregon Medicaid enrollees.
Medicaid Expansion: State Tobacco Cessation Coverage This report looks at the thirty-five states and District of Columbia that have expanded their state Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act. States are required to provide these newly enrolled individuals coverage of the essential health benefits, including preventive services. Tobacco cessation is a preventive service and is required to be covered for all Medicaid expansion enrollees without cost-sharing.
Improving Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Coverage in South Carolina: A Case Study in Partnership This case study tells the story of South Carolina's Medicaid Office and Public Health Department working together to expand their tobacco cessation coverage for the Medicaid population. Their work resulted in a comprehensive tobacco cessation benefit for Medicaid enrollees in South Carolina.
Comprehensive Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Coverage in Maine: A Case Study in Legislative Action to Improve Health This case study tells the story of Maine’s experience passing legislation to give enrollees in Medicaid near comprehensive coverage of tobacco cessation medications and services. It provides information on tactics and lessons learned during the campaign that should be helpful for other states seeking to do this.
Approaches to Promoting Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Coverage: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned This report explores the efforts promoting tobacco cessation benefits to Medicaid enrollees in five states. It offers different approaches taken by the states and the lessons they learned.
Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Coverage in Oklahoma: A Case Study in Leveraging Systems and Partnerships This case study explores Oklahoma's experience of designing and implementing near-comprehensive tobacco cessation coverage in Medicaid that has resulted in reductions in smoking prevalence and increases in utilization of cessation services, as well as other promising outcomes.
State Health Insurance Marketplace Plans: New Opportunities to Help Smokers Quit
Millions of Americans are now enrolled in health insurance purchased through marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This newly insured population presents an opportunity to connect tobacco users with treatments that are proven to help them quit, yet this report finds that the coverage provided through state health insurance marketplaces is failing to give smokers all the help they need to quit, including access to all seven FDA-approved tobacco cessation medications required by federal guidance.
State of Tobacco Control
American Lung Association annual report that grades tobacco control policies, including cessation coverage, in each state.

Historic Reports

Save Lives and Money: Help People on Medicaid Quit Tobacco
American Lung Association report released in conjunction with the Partnership for Prevention in July 2012. Explores why states should help people on Medicaid quit tobacco and what coverage is currently provided.
Save Lives and Money: Help State Employees Quit Tobacco
American Lung Association report released in conjunction with the Partnership for Prevention in July 2009. Explores why states should help their employees quit tobacco and what coverage is currently provided to state employees
Smoking Cessation: the Economic Benefit
American Lung Association and Penn State University Report released in 2010. Provides state-by-state return-on-investment information for covering tobacco cessation treatments.
Helping Smokers Quit: Tobacco Cessation Coverage
American Lung Association report summarizing and analyzing federal and state cessation coverage policies cessation coverage.