Helping Tobacco Users Quit Act
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Committee Activity
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- Senate Committee on FinanceReferred To · 2025-06-12
Plain-English Summary
Helping Tobacco Users Quit Act This bill provides for Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage of certain tobacco cessation services. Specifically, the bill provides for coverage, without cost-sharing, of diagnostic, therapy, and counseling services and pharmacotherapy, including prescription and nonprescription tobacco cessation agents, that are provided under medical supervision and in accordance with specified guidelines. It also applies a 90% Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (i.e., federal matching rate) for such items and services for five years.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
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