April 22, 2019
UCSF Research Finds 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 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 smoking Medicaid savings the following year, according to new research by UC San Francisco. The median state…