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ArticleAdvances in therapy2017

Estimated Budget Impact of Adopting the Affordable Care Act's Required Smoking Cessation Coverage on United States Healthcare Payers.

Christine L Baker, Cheryl P Ferrufino, Marianna Bruno, Stacey Kowal

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Article in Advances in therapy, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Christine L BakerPfizer Inc, New York, NY, USA.
Cheryl P FerrufinoHealth Economics and Outcomes Research, IMS Health, Fairfax, VA, USA.
Marianna BrunoPfizer Inc, New York, NY, USA.
Stacey KowalHealth Economics and Outcomes Research, IMS Health, Fairfax, VA, USA. skowal@us.imshealth.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionDespite abundant information on the negative impacts of smoking, more than 40 million adult Americans continue to smoke. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires tobacco cessation as a preventive service with no patient cost share for all FDA-approved cessation medications. Health plans have a vital role in supporting smoking cessation by managing medication access, but uncertainty remains on the gaps between smoking cessation requirements and what is actually occurring in practice. This study presents current cessation patterns, real-world drug costs and plan benefit design data, and estimates the 1- to 5-year pharmacy budget impact of providing ACA-required coverage for smoking cessation products to understand the fiscal impact to a US healthcare plan.

methodsA closed cohort budget impact model was developed in Microsoft Excel

resultsThe projected PMPM cost of providing coverage for smoking cessation medications is $0.10 for commercial, $0.06 for Medicare, and $0.07 for Medicaid plans, reflecting a low incremental PMPM impact of covering two attempts ranging from $0.01 for Medicaid to $0.02 for commercial and Medicare payers.

conclusionThe projected PMPM impact of covering two quit attempts with access to all seven cessation medications at no patient cost share remains low. Results of this study reinforce that the impact of adopting the ACA requirements for smoking cessation coverage will have a limited near-term impact on health plan's budgets.

fundingPfizer Inc.

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AdultBudgetsHumansInsurance CarriersMiddle AgedModels, EconometricNicotinic AgonistsPatient Protection and Affordable Care ActSmoking CessationTobacco Use Cessation DevicesUnited StatesNicotinic AgonistsAffordable Care ActBudgetary impactPharmacotherapySmoking cessationTobacco controlVarenicline

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PMID27888437
PMCPMC5216065

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