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State staff recommend studying billing tobacco quit-line services to Medicaid; committee backs review
Summary
Legislative fiscal staff and the Department of Health and Human Services recommended evaluating whether the state can bill Medicaid for tobacco quit-line services; the committee voted to support a staff recommendation to have DHHS report options and fiscal impacts by Oct. 1, 2025.
The Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee endorsed a staff recommendation that the Department of Health and Human Services study whether Utah can bill Medicaid for tobacco cessation services delivered through the toll-free quit line and related programs.
Russell Franzen, staff to the committee, presented data showing the department spent about $800,000 on tobacco cessation services in 2025, delivered through phone and web-based supports. Franzen said roughly 1,500 phone callers used phone-based cessation services in 2025 and that about 41% of those phone callers were Medicaid enrollees. "We don't currently bill any of these…
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