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Article: Employer-sponsored insurance coverage of smoking cessation treatments.(POLICY)
- Article from:
- American Journal of Managed Care
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
- Author:
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Objective: To investigate the costs and benefits of covering smoking cessation interventions from insurers' and employers' perspectives.
Study Design: A Monte Carlo model was used to simulate smoking status and health expenditures in a hypothetical population of employees over a period of 20 years.
Methods: Population characteristics were drawn from the 1997-2002 National Health Interview surveys. Multivariate regressions using a number of publicly available datasets from 1996-2002 generated transition probabilities for the simulation. The costs and benefits of scenarios where smoking cessation treatments were covered were compared with a scenario where ...