Clinicians' awareness of the Affordable Care Act mandate to provide comprehensive tobacco cessation treatment for pregnant women covered by Medicaid

Autor: Van T. Tong, Lucinda J. England, Ann Malarcher, Jeanne Mahoney, Britta Anderson, Jay Schulkin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Preventive Medicine Reports, Vol 2, Iss C, Pp 686-688 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2211-3355
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2015.08.013
Popis: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires states to provide tobacco-cessation services without cost-sharing for pregnant traditional Medicaid-beneficiaries effective October 2010. It is unknown the extent to which obstetricians–gynecologists are aware of the Medicaid tobacco-cessation benefit. We sought to examine the awareness of the Medicaid tobacco-cessation benefit in a national sample of obstetricians–gynecologists and assessed whether reimbursement would influence their tobacco cessation practice. In 2012, a survey was administered to a national stratified-random sample of obstetricians–gynecologists (n = 252) regarding awareness of the Medicaid tobacco-cessation benefit. Results were stratified by the percentage of pregnant Medicaid patients. Chi-squared tests (p
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