Arkansas Infographic: Smoking-Attributable Costs to Medicaid

Contact: Kenley Money
Email:  achi@achi.net

To estimate the cost of smoking to Medicaid, ACHI analyzed data from the Arkansas All-Payer Claims Database to determine the amounts of claims paid by Medicaid for certain conditions among adults ages 30–65 in fiscal year 2015. ACHI then estimated the portions of those amounts attributable to smoking based on each condition’s percentage of risk associated with smoking, using methods developed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.