Healthcare costs around the time of smoking cessation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Affordable Care Act mandates that new insurance plans cover smoking-cessation therapy without cost-sharing. Previous cost difference estimates, which show a spike around the time of cessation, suggest premiums might rise as a result of covering these services.

Purpose

The goal of the study was to test (1) whether individuals in an RCT of pharmacotherapy and counseling for smoking cessation differed in their healthcare costs around the cessation period, and (2) whether the healthcare costs of those in the trial who successfully quit were different from a matched sample of smokers in the community.

Methods

Generalized linear regression models were used to analyze healthcare cost data on individuals enrolled in a comparative effectiveness trial of cessatio

SUBMITTER: Hockenberry JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3358703 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature