healthcare

Wyoming Public Radio’s Kamila Kudelska went to Cheyenne a day before the House and Senate reconciled their versions of the budget bill to check in with the Wyoming Hospital Association President Eric Boley. He shared how the budget and some bills going through the legislative session may help or hurt Wyoming’s healthcare situation.

The Senate is considering a bill that would provide medicaid reimbursements for birthing centers, while the House is considering EMS service reimbursement and overall state eligibility for Medicaid.

The court struck down two near-total abortion bans recently and has since been met with pushback from the state’s conservative faction.

Lawmakers have moved forward a bill protecting pregnancy centers, which offer resources to pregnant people not including abortion, and a bill ensuring birth centers get Medicaid coverage.

Legislators across the political spectrum have been hosting town halls and listening sessions on the upcoming session and this year’s elections.

Congress let enhanced premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans expire at the end of the year. The subsidy had attracted a steady increase of signups in Wyoming for years.

The attorney general’s office said the court ‘made numerous mistakes’ when deciding two near-total abortion bans were unconstitutional.

Listening sessions held by Democratic lawmakers ahead of legislative session show overlap of top concerns, they say.

The state’s highest court ruled that two near-total state abortion bans violate the constitution.

Wyoming’s first-year award will help sustain critical care access hospitals and labor and delivery services. Workforce development, chronic disease prevention, behavioral health, and innovative approaches to delivering care and handling payments will also be supported.