Smoking Cessation

Medicaid help proposed to assist smokers, chewers to quit

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 31st, 2004

About 8,200 Arkansas smokers or tobacco-chewers who are eligible for Medicaid healthcare assistance will be able to get the program to pay for nicotine patches, gum and counseling intended to help them quit the habit under a new program proposed to federal officials, a state official says.

John Selig, deputy director of the state Department of Human Services, said that the new coverage will allow primary-care doctors to bill Medicaid for counseling patients to quit smoking or chewing tobacco.

The new coverage is set to begin October 1.

Medicaid will also continue its policy of paying for the anti-anxiety medicine Zyban.

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-08-31)

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