State Briefs - North American Quitline Consortium

State Briefs

Eleven states are participating in the NAQC initiative to advance the sustainability of state quitlines through the formation of public-private partnerships. Each of the states has different levels of experience in forming cost-sharing strategies and models. While the states are in the infancy stage of partnership development, their experiences are rich and diverse.

To learn more about each of the state’s goals and efforts in building cost-sharing partnerships, as well as the state’s quitline services see the table below and click on the URL for the State’s Brief.

State Organization	Project Lead	E-mail	Telephone	Existing Cost-Sharing Partnerships	Current Partnership Focus	State Brief
Arizona Department of Health Services, Bureau of Tobacco and Chronic Disease	Courtney Ward, MPA, Tobacco Program Lead	wardc@azdhs.gov	602-542-2075	State as an employer	Employer, Medicaid and private health plans	URL
Florida Department of Health	Gregg Smith, MBA, Policy Administrator and Jennifer Harris, Statewide Tobacco Policy Manager	Gregg_Smith @doh.state.fl.us; Jennifer_Harris@doh.state.fl.us	850-245-4444 ext. 2485 (GS); 772-871-7258 (JH)	None	County government, school districts, and city governments	URL
Kentucky Department for Health	Bobbye Gray, Tobacco Cessation Administrator	bobbye.gray@ky.gov	502-564-9358 ext. 4017	None	State as an employer, Medicaid MCO’s, major private health plans	URL
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Center for Tobacco Prevention and Control	Sara Wolfe, MS, Quitline Manager	Sara.Wolfe@maryland.gov	410-767-1364	Medicaid FFP	Employers, State as an employer, Medicaid, and private health plans.	URL
Massachusetts; Department of Public Health, Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program	Anna Landau, MPH, Director of Tobacco Cessation Programs	anna.landau@state.ma.us	617-624-5941	Medicaid FFP; private plans; trade unions	State as an employer; private health plans; Medicaid behavioral health carve-out	URL
Nevada State Health Division, Bureau of Child, Family, and Community Wellness, Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Section, Tobacco prevention and Control Program	Lisa Maletsky, Health Resource Analyst; Andrea Esp, MPH, CPH, CHES Tobacco Prevention Coordinator	lmaletsky@health.nv.gov; aesp@health.nv.gov	775- 219-5216 (LM); 775-684-5957 (AE)	None	None at present	URL
New Hampshire Tobacco Prevention and Control Program	Teresa Brown, BS, TSS	tmbrown@dhhs.state.nh.us	603-271-8949	None	Medicaid	URL
North Carolina Division of Public Health	Joyce Swetlick, MPH; Director of Tobacco Cessation	joyce.swetlick@dhhs.nc.gov	919-707-5402	NC State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees; Medicaid FFP MOU	Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC; Orange County as an employer; Medicaid	N/A
Rhode Island Department of Health, Tobacco Control Program	Dana McCants Derisier, MS, Cessation Coordinator	dana.mccants-derisier@health.ri.gov	401-222-7625	None	State as an employer, Medicaid (managed care and fee-for-service), and major private health plans	URL
Texas, University of Texas at Austin	Shelley Karn, EdD, Program Manager for Tobacco Control and Prevention	shelleykarn@mail.utexas.edu	512-232-9307	None	State as an employer, Medicaid (managed care and fee-for-service), and major private health plans	N/A
Utah Department of Health	Sandra Schulthies, MS, Cessation Services Coordinator	sandys1@utah.gov	801-538-6502	Intermountain Healthcare/Select Health (large employer)contracts directly with a quitline vendor and Public Employees Health Plan (State as an employer) contracts with state quitline	Private health plans and employers, and Medicaid	URL

If you are interested in advancing cost –sharing partnerships in your state, please contact Deb Osborne, Manager of Public-private Partnerships at dosborne@naquitline.org.

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