Medicaid Could Save $2.6 Billion Within a Year if Just 1 Percent of Recipients Quit Smoking
This article is archived and only made available for historical reference. If you’d like to discover UCSF’s most recent advances in research, education and patient care, please visit the UCSF News Center. The median state would save $25 million, ranging from $630.2 million in California (if the smoking rate dropped from 15.5 percent to 14.5 percent) to $2.5 million in South Dakota (if the rate dropped from 41.3 to 40.3 percent), the research found.
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This article is archived and only made available for historical reference. If you’d like to discover UCSF’s most recent advances in research, education and patient care, please visit the UCSF News Center. Patient Care April 12, 2019 Archive: Medicaid Could Save $2.6 Billion Within a Year if Just 1 Percent of Recipients Quit Smoking The Median State Would Save an Estimated $25 Million in Medicaid Expenditures, Says UCSF Research By Elizabeth Fernandez Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Email this article Print this article Reducing smoking, and its associated health effects, among Medicaid recipients in each state by just 1 percent would result in $2.6 billion in total Medicaid savings the following year, according to new research by UC San Francisco.
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