healthcare

Cardiac activity can be detected with a transvaginal ultrasound at about six weeks. A group of abortion access advocates say they'll ask a court to block the ban.

Gov. Mark Gordon signed over 30 bills into law on Friday and vetoed one that would have killed an investment account, citing constitutional concerns.

Lawmakers passed a bill that outlines how Wyoming will spend its $205 million in federal Rural Health Transformation funds. But the feds still need to OK it. Other bills meant to address rural healthcare challenges have also made it to the governor's desk.

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.