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Board of Medicine asks for $710,000 to modernize licensing system after repeated failures
Summary
The Wyoming Board of Medicine told the Joint Appropriations Committee its 15‑year old licensing system is failing and asked for $710,000 (conversion overlap and ongoing contract costs) to move to a new vendor and avoid reverting to paper renewals; the board says special‑revenue funds from licensees will cover the work.
Kevin Boninblest, executive director of the Wyoming Board of Medicine, told the Joint Appropriations Committee the board's licensing system can no longer reliably serve physicians and physician assistants and that staff recently had to return to stuffing paper renewal forms for PAs "for the first time in 15 years." He asked the committee to approve a $710,000 exception request to fund a vendor conversion…
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