CDC: Medicaid Coverage for Tobacco Cessation

[LoveVanilla]

Anybody sensing a contradiction between CDC action and statement below? Also, CDC STATE system, linked below, may be of interest or useful for some.

CDC: State Medicaid Coverage for Tobacco Cessation Treatments and Barriers to Accessing Treatments

The prevalence of current cigarette smoking is approximately twice as high among adults enrolled in Medicaid (23.9%) as among privately insured adults (10.5%), placing Medicaid enrollees at increased risk for smoking-related disease and death (1). Medicaid spends approximately $39 billion annually on treating smoking-related diseases

Information on state Medicaid cessation coverage compiled by the American Lung Association is available in the CDC State Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System, a database that contains tobacco-related epidemiologic and economic data and information on state tobacco-related legislation (State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System). Certain data presented in this report differ slightly from Medicaid cessation coverage data reported in the STATE System because of small differences in coding rules, categories, and reporting periods.

 

[zoiDman]

"Barriers to Accessing Treatments"

Tuesday, May 12th, 2020

 

[CarolT]

So, those requirements for state Medicaid quit-smoking coverage are another "benefit" of ObamaCare. Which the Repugs have made no genuine attempt to repeal.