The Wyoming Cost of Financial Exploitation 2011, 2012 and 2013

The report was released in January 2015 by the Wyoming Department of Family Services’ (DFS) Adult Protection Services (APS) program. The analysis is the second conducted by DFS. The goal was to determine the financial impact of financial abuse and exploitation of vulnerable adults on state systems in Wyoming. The analysis is based on cases of substantiated financial exploitation during 2011, 2012, and 2013. To calculate the potential loss to Medicaid, projected remaining life expectancy of the victims was multiplied by the average Medicaid cost for each year . . .