Wyoming Proposes Medicaid Expansion Through Alternative Benefit Plan

The Wyoming Department of Health has released its recommendations for an alternative Medicaid expansion model, which will provide health coverage to 17,600 individuals, about 3.0% of the state's 582,658 population in 2013. The model, Wyoming’s "Strategy for Health Access, Responsibility, and Employment" (SHARE) Plan,  features an alternative benefit plan as well as premiums for higher income individuals. The Wyoming legislature has not yet approved Medicaid expansion, but in 2014 an amendment to the Budget Bill was passed that allowed alternative expansion methods to be researched and authorized talks with the federal Centers for Medicare &amp . . .