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JAMA. 2008;299(15):1766-1768.

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MMWR. 2008;57:117-122

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Approximately one third of adult Medicaid recipients smoke.¹ The Public Health Service,² the Task Force on Community Preventive Services,³ and the Institute of Medicine⁴ recommend that health-insurance coverage be provided for tobacco-dependence treatments. In addition, a Healthy People 2010 national health objective calls for total health-insurance coverage for evidence-based tobacco-dependence treatments in all 51 Medicaid programs (objective 27-8b).⁵ The types of tobacco-dependence treatments covered by Medicaid have been reported periodically from surveys conducted by the Center for Health and Public Policy Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.⁶ This report summarizes results of the 2006 survey, which determined that 39 state Medicaid programs (including the District of Columbia) covered some form of tobacco-dependence treatment (i.e., medication or counseling) for all Medicaid recipients and one state program provided coverage for all recommended treatments. Two states that previously provided no coverage for tobacco-dependence treatment began coverage in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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