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About ATMC The purpose of the Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care (ATMC) program was to promote the integration of effective smoking cessation interventions into the basic health care provided by managed care organizations (MCOs). To achieve this purpose, the program awarded grants to evaluate the effectiveness of replicable organizational strategies that lead health care providers, practices and plans to adopt and adhere to the recommendations of the U.S. Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence. The projects funded under this initiative examined the impact of organizational strategies (including clinical, financial, and administrative practices) on such outcomes as smoker identification, tobacco use reduction among patients, rates of clinician intervention, and costs of intervention efforts. The research program spanned the full spectrum of MCO models so that results may benefit a wide range of providers and health plans. The research program worked in partnership with the ATMC National Technical Assistance Office at the America's Health Insurance Plans. The ATMC program ended in fall 2005. Its successor initiative, the Addressing Tobacco in Healthcare Research Networks, seeks to continue to support the information-sharing and collaborations established through ATMC and to engage new partners and stakeholders in system change research.
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