80% Of Health Insurance Marketplace Plans Fail To Offer Required Smoking Cessation Coverage

About 83% of health plans sold through the state and federally facilitated health insurance marketplaces fail to cover smoking cessation medications with no cost sharing or prior authorization needed, as required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The PPACA requires health plans to cover, without cost to the member or prior authorization, screening for tobacco use and for those who use tobacco products, at least two cessation attempts per year. Each covered cessation attempt must include at least four counseling sessions of at least 10 minutes and 90 days of treatment with tobacco cessation medications approved by . . .