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Department of Health briefs committee on Medicaid enrollment, budget and eligibility rules
Summary
Director Stefan Johansson and State Medicaid Agent Lee Grossman presented Medicaid's size, eligibility categories, enrollment trends and per-member cost differences to the interim committee, and discussed the impact of federal pandemic-era enrollment rules and pending federal legislation.
The Wyoming Department of Health told the Joint Labor, Health & Social Services Committee that Medicaid is the single largest item in the department’s budget and a significant factor in state finances and health policy.
Stefan Johansson, director of the Wyoming Department of Health, said Medicaid represents a large share of the department’s biennial funding and that roughly $1.4 billion of the department’s approximately $2.0 billion biennial budget is Medicaid-related financing. Lee Grossman, the department’s state Medicaid agent, described eligibility categories and explained that Wyoming is not a Medicaid expansion state.
Why it matters: Medicaid programs determine eligibility for health coverage and long-term services for low-income children, caretakers, pregnant women, elderly and disabled populations.…
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