Medicaid could save $2.6 billion within a year if just 1% of recipients quit smoking

(University of California - San Francisco) 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.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://bit.ly/2Gd0E8F