SBIRT for Tobacco Cessation in Health Care Settings: Targeted Training for Medicaid Providers

If you are a health care provider, YOU can play a substantial role in helping your patients quit using tobacco.

The MDQuit Resource Center has developed trainings aimed at enhancing health care providers’ skills at reaching and intervening with Medicaid enrollees who use tobacco.

Why Target Medicaid Enrollees?

  • Smoking prevalence is approximately 53% greater among Medicaid enrollees than among the overall U.S. adult population.1
  • Estimates of smoking prevalence among Maryland Medicaid enrollees may be as high as 51%. 1
  • Individuals from low-income communities are 1.5 times more likely to die from lung cancer and COPD than those from higher-income communities. 2

                                       

 

Maryland Medicaid Recipients ARE Interested in Quitting Tobacco

  • Between 2012 and 2013, 28.8% of ALL Maryland Quitline callers reported that they were insured by Medicaid.3       

In order to meet the unique needs of practices across the state, MDQuit is offering online and on-site tobacco cessation training to Medicaid providers.

  • Online Training: Our online training option allows healthcare providers to choose from 5 modules to fit their personal training needs. Individuals who complete this training will be certified as MDQuit "Fax to Assist" providers. 

Topics covered in the online training include: 

  • ​Brief overview of tobacco use among Medicaid population
  • Best practices for tobacco cesstion:
    • ​How to conduct a brief intervention (A3C model)
    • Information about the Maryland Tobacco Quitline's cessation services
    • Overview of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) and cessation medication
    • Behavioral changes that promote cessation
    • Motivational enhancement strategies
  • CPT codes for tobacco cessation counseling

​​You can sign up for this online training using the following link and the training code medicaid.

 

  • On-site Training: If you are interested in receiving an on-site training (described in the table, below), please fill out our Training Request Form (linked below) and fax it to 410-455-1755 or e-mail to trainings@mdquit.org

Click here for Training Request Form

Upon receipt of the Training Request Form, a Center Specialist will be in touch with you by phone to coordinate training details.

On-site Trainings

Topics Covered

30 Minute Training


  • Brief overview of tobacco use among Medicaid population
  • Best Practices for Tobacco Cessation:
    • How to conduct a brief behavioral intervention (A3C model)
    • Information about the Maryland Tobacco Quitline’s cessation services
    • Overview of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) and cessation medications
    • Behavioral changes that promote cessation
  • CPT codes for tobacco cessation counseling

60 Minute Training


  • Brief overview of tobacco use among Medicaid population
  • Best Practices for Tobacco Cessation:
    • How to conduct a brief behavioral intervention (A3C model)
    • Information about the Maryland Tobacco Quitline’s cessation services
    • Overview of Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) and cessation medications
    • Behavioral changes that promote cessation
  • CPT codes for tobacco cessation counseling
  • Additional Information on Best Practices for Cessation:
    • Video of a local psychiatrist explaining use of NRT and medications in greater detail
  • Motivational Enhancement Strategies

 

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Tags: 
Cessation
Physicians
Nurses
Quitlines
Fax to Assist
Best Practices
Medicaid
References: 

References:  1. Armour, Finklestein, & Fiebelkorn (2009); 2. American Lung Association, California (2010); 3. Maryland Quitline Report (2013)