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Tobacco Cessation Resources
A Purchaser's Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Smoking Cessation
This purchaser’s guide is a kit developed to help employers implement a robust smoking cessation benefit for their employees, including summary plan description language, CPT codes and treatment recommendations.
NBCH eValue8 Employer Report: Health Plan Tobacco Cessation Performance
Employers have a critical role in promoting tobacco cessation. Subsequently, employers should offer and plans should administer benefits that are most likely to achieve smoking cessation results. The following report describes purchaser expectations for health plan performance with respect to tobacco cessation and key results from eValue8, the nation’s leading RFI tool assessing health plan performance on behalf of employers.
Employer Case Studies
To provide a useful resource to our membership and foster a community of sharing experiences, the National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH) developed the following case studies. They present real-life examples of employer-based tobacco cessation programs and describe how employers implemented these programs, the challenges they faced and the outcomes of their experiences. NBCH coalitions and others selected the companies profiled in the case studies to illustrate a variety of geographies, industries, and types of workforce, and to demonstrate how different companies handle smoking cessation issues.
Cerner
Data Driven Benefit Design
Founded in 1979, Cerner is a leading supplier of healthcare information technology. Cerner’s integrated health management approach provides wellness-based incentives, personal health assessment and biometric screening, a health advisor, primary care, pharmacy, chronic condition management, and education, nutrition, and fitness options to promote a healthy lifestyle. Using a tool to bring together Cerner’s data—including cost and demographics related to health, benefit design, claims, lost work time, and employee satisfaction, Cerner adopted a value based benefit design for tobacco cessation.
Navistar International Corporation
Realizing Cost Savings
Navistar International Corporation is dedicated to integrated truck and engine product development. Using evidence-based data highlighting higher medical costs of smoker versus nonsmoker employees, the implementation of International's smoking cessation benefit demonstrates cost savings and a return on investment.
City of Savannah
Demonstrating Long-term Commitment
The city of Savannah comprises a workforce providing services for a diverse local economy including manufacturing, distribution, tourism, military, health care, port operations and retail sectors. With a rich history of promoting wellness benefits to employees, Savannah demonstrates its long-term commitment to a smoking cessation program that continues to evolve.
Quintiles Transnational Corporation
Adhering to the CEO Cancer Gold Standard
Quintiles Transnational Corporation is a global leader in pharmaceutical services, providing professional expertise, market intelligence and partnering solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and health care industries. With 44 percent of its work force home-based, Quintiles successfully implemented a corporate-wide, integrated smoking cessation benefit based on the CEO Cancer Gold Standard.
Paychex
Measuring Outcomes
For over 35 years, Paychex has helped millions of business owners and managers with payroll, human resources, and benefits outsourcing solutions. Recognized as a top national provider of these business solutions, Paychex is headquartered in Rochester, NY, with more than 12,000 employees and more than 100 locations across the country.
Caterpillar
An International Agenda
Since its inception more than 80 years ago, Caterpillar has grown to be the world's largest maker of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines. Worldwide, Caterpillar has nearly 95,000 employees and more than 100,000 dealer employees, plus thousands of suppliers on every continent.
UPS
Coordinating Internally and Externally
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, UPS is the world’s largest package delivery company and a leading global provider of specialized transportation and logistics services. UPS employs over 400,000 employees and provides service to more than 200 countries and territories. UPS spends over 2 billion dollars per year on health care benefits covering over 700,000 lives. UPS believes its people are its most valuable asset and has made a commitment to offer total compensation packages to ensure employees’ well-being and satisfaction.
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