Table 2. Estimated Smoking Attributable Neonatal Expenditures to Medicaid from Maternal Smoking, by State: Calendar Year 1996.
State | Smoking Attributable Neonatal Costs | Percent | Smoking Attributable Neonatal Costs/Medicaid Birth | Smoking Attributable Neonatal Costs/Medicaid Smoker | |
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Smoking Attributable Fraction (SAF) | SAF Among Medicaid Smokers | ||||
Total | $227,661,823 | — | — | — | 1738 |
Alabama | 3,643,633 | 2.47 | 14.43 | $59.86 | $753 |
Alaska | 522,357 | 4.59 | 13.91 | 52.76 | 548 |
Arizona | 2,351,205 | 2.25 | 14.70 | 31.08 | 644 |
Arkansas | 3,255,399 | 3.72 | 14.49 | 89.38 | 756 |
California | 21,832,758 | 3.01 | 14.77 | 41.60 | 680 |
Colorado | 2,022,506 | 3.24 | 14.63 | 35.80 | 628 |
Connecticut | 1,634,815 | 2.67 | 13.85 | 37.96 | 811 |
Delaware | 785,224 | 3.39 | 14.89 | 76.74 | 864 |
District of Columbia | 452,299 | 1.52 | 15.95 | 57.25 | 1,333 |
Florida | 11,008,323 | 2.54 | 14.60 | 57.24 | 783 |
Georgia | 6,087,771 | 2.16 | 14.62 | 51.52 | 802 |
Hawaii | 371,660 | 2.37 | 13.63 | 21.42 | 532 |
Idaho | 762,936 | 3.92 | 14.44 | 41.17 | 591 |
Illinois | 10,483,247 | 3.39 | 14.81 | 58.00 | 843 |
Indiana | 8,602,347 | 5.91 | 14.46 | 103.10 | 742 |
Iowa | 2,423,712 | 5.15 | 14.29 | 66.21 | 699 |
Kansas | 1,892,662 | 3.69 | 14.29 | 50.82 | 707 |
Kentucky | 5,926,420 | 5.47 | 14.32 | 111.49 | 722 |
Louisiana | 3,744,853 | 2.03 | 14.70 | 56.75 | 823 |
Maine | 981,710 | 5.16 | 13.39 | 71.94 | 710 |
Maryland | 4,079,095 | 2.91 | 14.95 | 58.15 | 884 |
Massachusetts | 3,890,388 | 3.59 | 13.65 | 48.44 | 765 |
Michigan | 10,127,394 | 4.58 | 14.57 | 75.78 | 778 |
Minnesota | 2,985,488 | 3.98 | 14.34 | 46.34 | 716 |
Mississippi | 2,715,440 | 2.25 | 14.66 | 65.44 | 817 |
Missouri | 6,064,018 | 4.97 | 14.43 | 81.97 | 742 |
Montana | 612,150 | 5.22 | 14.22 | 56.67 | 578 |
Nebraska | 1,375,419 | 4.54 | 14.28 | 59.08 | 699 |
Nevada | 1,307,914 | 3.36 | 14.83 | 48.70 | 673 |
New Hampshire | 889,616 | 4.97 | 13.42 | 62.28 | 713 |
New Jersey | 6,192,636 | 3.39 | 14.35 | 54.69 | 946 |
New Mexico | 965,736 | 2.51 | 14.65 | 36.03 | 632 |
New York | 15,496,293 | 3.31 | 14.08 | 60.26 | 857 |
North Carolina | 8,396,204 | 3.47 | 14.64 | 78.50 | 810 |
North Dakota | 520,891 | 5.41 | 13.91 | 62.55 | 648 |
Ohio | 13,018,792 | 5.04 | 14.53 | 85.67 | 761 |
Oklahoma | 3,906,974 | 3.99 | 14.22 | 81.12 | 714 |
Oregon | 2,417,700 | 4.59 | 14.57 | 55.23 | 615 |
Pennsylvania | 11,584,801 | 4.63 | 13.96 | 80.36 | 832 |
Rhode Island | 805,981 | 4.38 | 13.65 | 64.97 | 772 |
South Carolina | 3,789,951 | 2.83 | 14.66 | 72.66 | 809 |
South Dakota | 626,638 | 4.37 | 13.33 | 61.41 | 581 |
Tennessee | 6,546,140 | 3.75 | 14.56 | 87.96 | 780 |
Texas | 12,007,549 | 1.71 | 14.48 | 35.96 | 761 |
Utah | 1,259,547 | 3.17 | 14.41 | 29.28 | 589 |
Vermont | 438,365 | 5.04 | 13.43 | 66.52 | 717 |
Virginia | 5,516,067 | 2.94 | 14.76 | 60.08 | 833 |
Washington | 3,767,526 | 4.32 | 14.54 | 48.17 | 613 |
West Virginia | 2,395,233 | 5.77 | 14.29 | 115.77 | 713 |
Wisconsin | 4,777,631 | 4.98 | 14.46 | 71.84 | 750 |
Wyoming | 398,409 | 5.49 | 14.41 | 62.60 | 593 |
Smoking attributable expenditures across all States' Medicaid births to smokers.
NOTES: Neonatal expenditures include both Federal and State funding. Amounts are in 1996 dollars.
SOURCES: National Center for Health Statistics; Data from the Natality data set; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Data from the Maternal and Child Health Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Morbidity, and Economic Costs Web site, http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/sammec/; and the California Department of Public Health: Data from the Maternal and Infant Health Assessment Files, 1996.