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- 1. Systems-Level Innovations to Promote Tobacco Treatment in Health Care Settings- Columbia University/ Aetna Dental "Tobacco and the Dental Office: Encouraging Patients to Quit" David A. Albert, DDS, MPH [email_address] 212-304-7172 Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- The Dental Managed Care Organization can serve as a facilitator for patient tobacco cessation advice and assimilation of tobacco cessation techniques intoroutine dental policies and procedures.
- Improved health outcomes can be understood as contributing to lower total health costs and to an augmentation of quality by the MCO.
- The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Guideline #18(April 1996) recommends that insurers support tobacco user identification systems, support cessation treatment through staff education and training, and provide for reimbursement for tobacco-dependence treatment
- Why conduct tobacco cessation in the dental office?
- oral entry way
- leukoplackic changes
- bad breath
- cosmetic defects
- periodontal disease
- oral cancer
- not a candidate for prosthetics, implants
- Support from the American Dental Association
- National Dental Association
- American Academy of General Dentistry
- NCI Dental Tobacco Steering Committee
- AHCPR/ PHS Guidelines
- Dental School Curriculum
- Aetna Dental
- One of the largest dental insurance companies in the US
- Market leader in the Dental HMO business
- Top 3 dental player by total membership (13 million covered dental members)
- DMO product serves approximately three million members
- 7,100 DMO GP locations
- Presence in 50 States
- Commitment of Resources
- Network Managers, supervisory personnel
- Regional Dental Directors, National Dental Director
- Quality Assurance
- Dental Provider education and enhanced reimbursement
- Patient education
- To stimulate tobacco cessation behaviors by subject-dentists
- To incorporate systems-based strategies including tobacco user identification systems, education, financial incentives, and feedback
- To determine whether a CD-ROM based educational intervention can increase the prevalence of cessation activities within the MCO dental practices
- To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the intervention
- Continuing medical education via CD-ROM
- Enhanced payment system for tobacco cessation in the dental office
- Interactive electronic detailing sessions
- The CD-ROM includes branding as an Aetna Dental product
- The cover art on the CD-ROM case and on the CD-ROM label were developed in close conjunction with Aetna Dental
- The introductory segment of the CD-ROM contains video of the Head of Aetna Dental
- The incentive plan was developed and disseminated to participating dentists in the intervention arm
- The incentive plan builds upon lessons learned in the Columbia/ Aetna Dental ATMC 1 project
- Aetna Dental provided the dentist with $10 for each Aetna DMO ®enrolled patient who received tobacco cessation counseling and completed the Columbia University Survey of Dental Patients during the enrollment period
- Dentists were informed of the compensation program when the patient surveys and materials were sent to them and via electronic detailing (e-mail)
- Aetna Dental implemented an updated quality assurance system incorporating tobacco cessation questions into their periodic in-office reviews
- The modified system was implemented in the 29 States where dental offices are included in the study