4096.0: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM

Oral Session

Tobacco Addiction Treatment (Cessation): A Medicare Priority

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement.
Learning Objectives: Learning Objectives for the Healthy Aging Project’s Medicare Stop Smoking Program At the completion of the symposium, the participant in this session will be able to: 1. Recognize the impact of tobacco-related illnesses on the Medicare program’s health care spending. 2. Describe the evidence supporting various smoking cessation interventions targeting older smokers. 3. Identify the smoking cessation interventions that the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) will test as potential new Medicare benefits in a national trial. 4. Describe the effectiveness and costs of alternative smoking cessation interventions that will be tested as potential new Medicare benefits.
Discussant(s):James Coan
Moderator(s):Margaret Maglione, MPP
12:30 PMSESSION ABSTRACT - Smoking cessation: A Medicare priority
Margaret Maglione, MPP, Erin G. Stone, MD
12:40 PMA review of effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions: Implications for Medicare
Paul G. Shekelle, MD, PhD, Sally A. Morton, PhD, Margaret Maglione, MPP, Walter Mojica, MD, MPH, Erin Stone, MD
1:00 PMHealthy Aging Project's Medicare Stop Smoking Program
Jeanette A. Preston, MD, MPH, Judith K. Barr, ScD, Jennifer Mongoven, BA, Laurence Z. Rubenstein, MD, MPH, Richard W. Besdine, MD, FACP
1:20 PMA cost-benefit analysis of the Medicare Stop Smoking Program
Geoffrey F. Joyce, PhD, Shin-Yi Wu, PhD, Jeanette A. Preston, MD, MPH, Laurence Z. Rubenstein, MD, MPH, Paul G. Shekelle, MD, PhD
1:40 PMDiscussion: James Coan, MD, Health Care Financing Administration
Sponsor:Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
Cosponsors:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Social Work
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 129th Annual Meeting of APHA