AGP Executive Report
Last update: 4 hours agoHealth Costs: Wyoming’s Health Insurance Affordability Task Force is weighing a model that would treat essential hospital services as utilities and leave nonessential services to the market. Lawmakers would need to define those categories; the task force also voted to continue its work beyond next year’s legislative session. Rural Hospital Leadership: Aspen Mountain Medical Center in Rock Springs named Tony Swart CEO. He brings 19 years of healthcare experience, including work to expand provider recruitment and rehabilitation and cardiology services in rural Oregon. Mental Health Care: Natrona, Laramie and Sheridan counties can now seek state reimbursements for holding and treating people in jail while they undergo mental health evaluations. Wyoming has set aside $5 million for the program through 2028. Care Access: Wyoming lawmakers advanced a bill creating a pathway for foreign-trained physicians to practice without completing a U.S. residency. Meanwhile, Wyoming is set to lose 43% of its Medicare Advantage plans in 2027 and face the nation’s largest premium increase.
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