The coverage decision involves Medicare beneficiaries who have an illness caused or complicated by smoking, including heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, lung disease, weak bones, blood clots, and cataracts.EBSCO_bspMedical Benefits
If you are a Medicare beneficiary, you’ll be happy to know that Medicare Part B covers up to eight face-to-face counseling sessions a year to help you quit smoking. If you have a Medicare Part D prescription drug plan, certain smoking-cessation medications are covered too. Here are some...
Smokers attempting to quit were more likely to use cessation aids if covered by private (25.4%) or military (25.0%) insurance than by Medicare (17.8%), Medicaid (15.5%), or no insurance (13.2%). In a multivariate analysis of factors related to use of cessation aids, advice from a ...
Because the maximum time since smoking cessation was three years (the minimum was seven days) and the earliest survey was in May 2010 (the latest was in May 2015), the resulting years of smoking cessation covered 2007 to 2015. The annual sample sizes varied from 226 (2015) to 1195 (2010...
[23]. Wilson et al. conducted a randomized controlled trial highlighting a reduction in acute asthma medical visits and overall healthcare utilization for children whose parents were assigned to smoking-cessation classes [24]. Similar to our study, these studies document that reductions in ETS ...
This article presents information related to The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that recently announced that it is adding coverage for smoking and tobacco use cessation counseling for certain beneficiaries that will help them quit the habit. The coverage decision involves Medicare ...
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The effectiveness of covering smoking cessation services for Medicare beneficiaries. Health Serv Res. 2008;43(6):2106-2123. doi:10.1111/j.1475-6773.2008.00891.x.Joyce GF, Niaura R, Maglione M, et al. The effectiveness of covering smoking cessation services for medicare beneficia- ries. Health...
Information for CME Credit — Trends in Use of Medications for Smoking Cessation in Medicare, 2007–2012 - ScienceDirectdoi:10.1016/j.amepre.2016.07.007NoneAmerican Journal of Preventive Medicine