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Minnesota: Improving Access to Medicaid Tobacco Cessation Benefits

This brief explores the ways in which various organizations worked together to improve access to and use of tobacco cessation benefits among Minnesota’s Medicaid population with the goal of reducing commercial tobacco use. This was accomplished through improved, more uniform cessation treatment coverage across Medicaid managed care organizations and expanded outreach to Medicaid members to enhance awareness of Medicaid’s covered cessation benefits.