Building a tobacco intervention system in managed care
Designing tobacco control systems and cessation benefits in managed care: skill building workshop
Carolyn Link Carlsona, Peggy Chuteb, Sallie Daceyc, Tim A McAfeed
a Center
for Tobacco Reduction and Health Improvement, Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Minnesota, Route R371, 3400 Yankee Drive, Eagan, MN 55121, USA, b Vickery Building, 263 Water
Street, Augusta, ME 04330, USA, c Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, 201 16th Avenue East Main Building, Suite A-300, Seattle, WA
98112, USA, d Center for Health
Promotion, 1730 Minor Avenue, Suite 1520, Seattle WA 98101, USA
Correspondence to: Carolyn Link Carlson carolyn_l_carlson@bluecrossmn.com
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Introduction |
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The following article describes highlights from the skill building workshop "Designing tobacco control systems and cessation benefits in managed care". This workshop was conducted by Carolyn Link Carlson, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota, and Peggy Chute, formerly of Healthsource Maine.
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota |
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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota (Blue Cross) is Minnesota's oldest and largest health insurer. Blue Cross is a not-for-profit organisation which provides services to more than 1.8 million members throughout Minnesota and its border states, as well as nationally. Blue Cross has a network based system of care providers, and contracts with 100% of hospitals and over 90% of physicians in the state. Blue Cross offers a full portfolio of commercial and government products, and serves broad market segments, including individuals, small groups of 2-49 employees, self funded and fully funded groups of 50 or more employees, and members of state and federally funded programs.
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