Use of pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation: analysis of pregnant and postpartum Medicaid enrollees.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Affordable Care Act requires state Medicaid programs to cover pharmacotherapies for smoking cessation without cost sharing for pregnant women. Little is known about use of these pharmacotherapies among Medicaid-enrolled women.

Purpose

To describe the prevalence of prescription fills for smoking-cessation pharmacotherapies during pregnancy and postpartum among Medicaid-enrolled women and to examine whether certain pregnancy complications or copayments are associated with prescription fills.

Methods

Insurance claims data for women enrolled in a Medicaid managed care plan in Maryland and who used tobacco during pregnancy from 2003 to 2010 were obtained (N=4,709) and analyzed in 2014. Descriptive statistics were used to calculate the prevalence of smoking-c

SUBMITTER: Jarlenski MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4405626 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature