Building a tobacco intervention system in managed care
Findings from the Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care focus groups: an executive summary
Carol McPhillips-Tangum, Linda Schuessler
Prudential
Center for Health Care Research, 2859 Paces Ferry Road, Suite 820, Atlanta, GA 30339, USA;
carol.mcphillips-tangum@blueshieldca.com
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Introduction |
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In
1997, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched the four year
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care (ATMC) initiative designed to
promote the implementation of evidence based tobacco interventions in
managed care settings. As part of this initiative, a baseline survey of
managed health care plans was conducted in 1997-98 for the primary
purpose of assessing the extent to which health plans were developing,
implementing, and evaluating evidence based tobacco cessation and
prevention programs. A questionnaire was mailed to all health
plans in the American Association of Health Plans' database of member
and non-member plans and 323 (60%) of health plans responded. The
methods used to conduct the 1997-98 ATMC survey are reported more fully
elsewhere.1 The results of the survey indicated, among
other things, wide variation in the approaches taken by health plans to
design and provide covered benefits for tobacco control programs.
Owing to the high level of interest in identifying barriers to
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