AN ACT relating to Medicaid; providing for expansion of coverage to low income persons as specified; imposing restrictions on continued waiver authorization; repealing a prior Medicaid expansion limitation; and providing for an effective date.
AN ACT relating to physician assistants; amending and repealing provisions governing physician assistants; expanding the authorized scope of practice for physician assistants; and providing for an effective date.
AN ACT relating to insurance; mandating equivalent benefits and reimbursement related to mental health and substance use services delivered remotely; specifying applicability; and providing for an effective date.
AN ACT relating to health care; prohibiting discrimination in the provision of health care services and insurance for organ transplants and related procedures based on a person's disability; providing definitions; providing for enforcement and authorizing a civil action; and providing for an effective date.
ACT relating to Medicaid; providing for the expansion of Medicaid eligibility; limiting the continued expansion of Medicaid eligibility as specified; repealing prior authorizations; and providing for an effective date.
AN ACT relating to health care services; prohibiting the delivery of health care services as specified on more favorable terms or conditions for insured than for uninsured persons; imposing civil liability for alleged violations by health care service providers; amending the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act accordingly; providing definitions; and providing for an effective date.
AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; providing for the licensing of anesthesiologist assistants and specifying scope of practice; creating and amending definitions; creating an advisory committee to the board of medicine; providing for the imposition of fees; creating a criminal penalty; providing for a hearing; requiring rulemaking; and providing for an effective date.
The advisory committee shall review and make recommendations to the board regarding all matters relating to physician assistants that come before the board, including but not be limited to: scope of practice. The board shall pass upon the qualifications and ability of physicians desiring to serve as a supervising physician or back-up physician including, but not limited to, the compatibility of the supervising physician's or back-up physician's specialty and scope of practice with that of the physician assistant to be supervised. See definition section Wyo. Stat. § 33-26-501.
A physician assistant may prescribe medications only as an agent of the supervising physician. A physician may not prescribe schedule I drugs as defined by W.S. 35-7-1013 through 35-7-1014. The supervising physician may delegate authority to the physician assistant to dispense prepackaged medications in rural clinics when pharmacy services are not physically available. See definition section Wyo. Stat. § 33-26-501.
An individual who holds a valid emergency medical technician license issued by the division is authorized to perform any act authorized by division rules and regulations, under written or oral authorization of a licensed physician, and may provide emergency medical technician services in other states as permitted by the Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact Act.
