Medicaid

The Wyoming Medical Center probably could have added $2 million to its bottom line if state lawmakers had expanded Medicaid.

The jobs lost were in departments including finance, materials management, sterile processing, radiology and staff services. The administration has reduced its workforce about 15 percent in recent months.

The Niobrara County coroner accused of Medicaid fraud also faces charges that she neglected a patient of her home health care business for more than a year.

Governor Matt Mead issued a statement Friday evening in response to the State Senate's vote to reject Medicaid expansion in Wyoming. Here is the full statement: “The Medicaid expansion amendment to the budget failed. We will not provide health care coverage for 20,000 Wyoming citizens... Read More ...

In State of the State address, Matt Mead says we can't afford to turn down federal revenue.

Ivinson Memorial Hospital CEO Doug Faus stopped by the Laramie Live morning show to discuss the Joint Appropriations Committee's recent 7-5 vote to remove Gov. Matt Mead's suggestion to expand Medicaid from the upcoming state budget. Faus said previously that Medicaid expansion would provide insurance to roughly 20,000 Wyomingites...