| Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Releases Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services Informational Bulletin on Strategies to Improve Delivery of Tobacco Cessation Services Smoking is the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the United States, causing about 480,000 deaths annually and costing more than $600 billion each year in direct medical care and lost productivity. In 2021, approximately one in five (21.5%) adults enrolled in Medicaid smoked cigarettes, resulting in a heavy burden of smoking-related disease and death. To address these concerns, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) informational bulletin to highlight strategies that states have used to improve the delivery of tobacco cessation services to help more Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) beneficiaries quit smoking. The informational bulletin also provides an overview of coverage requirements in Medicaid and CHIP, in addition to information about quality measures and resources that Medicaid and CHIP agencies can use to measure and drive improvement in their delivery of tobacco cessation services. |
