Medicaid

State Democratic Party Chairman Pete Gosar and others held a telephone press conference Friday to announce they're pushing to raise public awareness of the issue.

Two Democratic lawmakers questioned Gov. Matt Mead about his recommendation that Wyoming not expand Medicaid to offer health insurance to low-income adults.

Gov. Matt Mead is recommending that the Wyoming Legislature not expand Medicaid coverage to include about 16,000 low-income adults who lack health insurance.

A federal judge has sentenced an Evanston woman to serve five months home confinement and two years of probation following her guilty plea to committing health care fraud.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Despite the Wyoming Legislature's recent rejection of a plan to extend Medicaid coverage to 17,600 additional low-income adults, the state's Department of Health continues to study the possibility. Expanding Medicaid is a cornerstone of the Affordable Care Act, and the federal government has pledged to initially pay the total cost of the optional expansion that lawmakers reje

Wyoming congresswoman Cynthia Lummis says that while she doesn't want to see cuts in benefits to current Medicare and Medicaid recipients, the math says changes must be made to the programs over the long-term if they are to survive. Lummis says demographics, and especially the large number of baby boomers who are collecting Medicare or soon will be, means the program is not financially viable with

Despite the defeat of a proposal to add about 17,600 low-income adults to the state's medicaid program, supporters say they were encouraged by the debate.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming legislative committee has voted against a bill to approve expansion of the federal Medicaid program. The Senate Labor Health and Social Services Committee voted 4-to-1 on Wednesday to recommend that the full Senate not pass the bill to add nearly 30,000 people to the Medicaid rolls in the state...

The Wyoming Senate is considering a bill that would try and reform the state's Medicaid program. Senator Charlie Scott, Chairman of the Senate Labor, Health and Social Services Committee,says that could be difficult because of the limitations put on the state's by the federal government...

A new report from the Wyoming Department of Health says that expanding Wyoming Medicaid as encouraged by the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) could reduce the number of uninsured residents and save the state more than $47 Million over the next six years...