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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• McAfee, Tim
• Babb, Stephen
• McNabb, Simon
• Fiore, Michael C

Titel

Helping Smokers Quit — Opportunities Created by the Affordable Care Act

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 2015-01, Vol.372 (1), p.5-7

Ort / Verlag

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Several provisions of the ACA address the long-standing gap in insurance coverage for smoking cessation and thereby increase cessation rates. These provisions could help improve quality of care and achieve better health outcomes while reducing costs. In its review of tobacco-dependence treatments, the 2008 clinical practice guideline of the U.S. Public Health Service concluded, “Indeed, it is difficult to identify any other condition that presents such a mix of lethality, prevalence, and neglect, despite effective and readily available interventions.” 1 The low utilization of clinical cessation interventions by smokers and physicians alike is partly attributable to inadequate insurance coverage 1 , 2 : many health insurers still fail to cover the evidence-based counseling and medication treatments recommended in the 2008 guideline. 2 Even when these treatments are covered, barriers to utilization such as copayments and prior-authorization requirements make obtaining them . . .