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Medicare Tests the Cost and Health Benefits of Tobacco-Cessation Programs for Seniors

January 1, 2005 | Program Result

The Connecticut Peer Review Organization held a Seniors and Smoking Conference to expand recruitment activities for the Medicare Stop Smoking Program, a federally funded demonstration project to test tobacco-cessation interventions as a Medicare benefit.

Cost Analysis Shows the Benefits of Disease Prevention Efforts Under Medicare

January 1, 2005 | Program Result

From July 2001 to the end of 2003, project staff with the Partnership for Prevention, Washington, produced nonpartisan and objective analyses of approaches to increase the emphasis on disease prevention and health promotion under Medicare.