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State Briefs

Since December 2011, Arizona, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Utah, and more recently Washington have participated in the NAQC Public-Private Partnership Initiative to advance tobacco cessation coverage and sustainability of state quitlines. The initiative, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provides support to participating states through webinar presentations/trainings, discussion groups, one-on-one technical assistance and resources available on the NAQC Public-Private Partnership web-page.

To learn about state’s experiences in applying the information, please see A Promising Practices Report --Public-Private Partnership Initiative: Working to Advance Cessation Coverage among Private and Public Insurers.

To learn more about each of the state’s goals and activities towards partnership development, please see each State’s Briefs (2011) and Progress Summaries (Sept 2014 and 2016). You can view the progress article here and a 2016 all state summary here.

State Organization	Project Lead	E-mail	Telephone	Existing Cost-Sharing Partnerships	Current Partnership Focus	State Brief (2011)	Progress Summary (2014)	Progress Summary (2016)
Arizona Department of Health Services, Bureau of Tobacco and Chronic Disease	Adrienne Lent, MBA, MPH, Tobacco Program Lead	adriennelent@email.arizona.edu	520-318-7212 x 420 800-552-6222 x 420	State as an employer	Employers and private health plans	URL	URL	URL
Florida Department of Health	Jennifer Harris, Statewide Tobacco Policy Manager	Jennifer_Harris@doh.state.fl.us	772-873-4938	None	Employers, county government, school districts, and city governments	URL	URL	Not available
Kentucky Department for Health	Bobbye Gray, Tobacco Cessation Administrator	bobbye.gray@ky.gov	502-564-9358 ext. 4017	Employers, city/county municapalities	State as an employer, Medicaid MCO’s, major private health plans, employers	URL	URL	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	URL	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	Not available	URL
New Hampshire Tobacco Prevention and Control Program	Teresa Brown, BS, TSS	tmbrown@dhhs.state.nh.us	603-271-8949	None	Medicaid	URL	URL	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, County/City municipalities, employers, Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC	Medicaid	N/A	URL	URL
Rhode Island Department of Health, Tobacco Control Program	Dana McCants Derisier, MS, Cessation Coordinator	Dana.MccantsDerisier@health.ri.gov	401-222-7625	None	State as an employer, Medicaid (managed care and fee-for-service), and major private health plans	URL	URL	URL
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	URL	URL
Washington State Department of Health	Nelson Atehortua De la Pena, PhD, MPH Health Services Consultant – Cessation Services	nelson.atehortuadelapena@doh.wa.gov	360-236-3518	Some state employee plans, Medicaid FFS and 4 Medicaid MCOs, employers, health plans contract directly with service provider	Health plans, Medicaid, State as Employer	N/A	N/A	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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