Overview
Wyoming was one of the first states to permit out-of-state regulated insurers to sell insurance products domestically to increase competition and decrease the cost to enter the market. Wyoming also requires studies of high hospital costs in the state, loss of medical services, and the use of out-of-state providers. While this statutory-mandated study is not yet complete, Wyoming Hospital Association attempts to compensate by offering an online price disclosure database for its hospitals. A coalition of Wyoming employers is also interested in obtaining charge data across all insured in order to better negotiate rates directly with providers. Additionally, the state adopted a resolution in support of promoting health care billing transparency, health savings accounts, and more.
In market consolidation oversight, Wyoming requires notification of nonprofit hospital mergers to the Attorney General. Additionally, the state requires approval of general nonprofit corporation mergers, as well as court approval of nonprofit hospitals mergers.
For 2024, Wyoming passed two pieces of key healthcare legislation. HB14 requires health insurers and contracted utilization review entities to follow prior authorization regulations, and includes transparency requirements, minimum qualifications for who can make adverse determinations, and provider exemptions from prior authorization requirements. The state also passed SF100, requiring swift payment of clean claims made by pharmacies.
See below for an overview of existing Wyoming state mandates. Click on citation tab for detailed information of specific statutes (click link to download statute text).
State Action
Latest Legislative Session: 1/10/2023 - 3/3/2023 (2023 term). *Current session bill updates are ongoing. Check back weekly for updates.
SF 52 – Wyoming
Introduced: 2021 Status: Enacted
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.
SF 54 – Wyoming
Introduced: 2022 Status: Inactive / Dead
AN ACT relating to professions and occupations; entering into a compact with other states to allow licensed professional counselors licensed in one compact state to exercise a multistate licensure privilege in other states that are …
SF 67 – Wyoming
Introduced: 2019 Status: Enacted
Hospital cost study: AN ACT relating to the provision of health care; requiring a study of high Wyoming hospital costs and discrimination by the federal Medicare program against Wyoming residents and Wyoming health care providers; …
SF 88 – Wyoming
Introduced: 2018 Status: Inactive / Dead
HEALTH CARE REFORM: Creating a multi-payer health claims database; creating a prescription drug importation program; creating a Medicaid buy-in program; creating a Medicaid prescription drug program for insurers; providing that specified interest rates relating to …
SJ 05 – Wyoming
Introduced: 2018 Status: Enacted
Status: Passed/Adopted. A JOINT RESOLUTION requesting Congress and Wyoming’s Congressional delegation to endorse use of health savings accounts and reinsurance programs to promote individual choice in health care; to support federal legislation lifting impediments and …
Wyo. Stat. § 17-19-1101. Approval of plan of merger: Wyoming Nonprofit Corporation Act – Wyoming
Introduced: Status: Enacted
Subject to the limitations set forth in W.S. 17-19-1102, one (1) or more nonprofit corporations may merge into a business or nonprofit corporation, if the plan of merger is approved as provided in W.S. 17-19-1103.
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Wyo. Stat. § 17-19-1102. Limitations on mergers by public benefit or religious corporations: Wyoming Nonprofit Corporation Act – Wyoming
Introduced: Status: Enacted
Without the prior approval of a district court in a proceeding which the secretary of state has been given written notice, a public benefit or religious corporation may merge only with certain entities. Without the …
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Wyo. Stat. § 17-19-1106. Merger with foreign corporation: Wyoming Nonprofit Corporation Act – Wyoming
Introduced: Status: Enacted
Except as provided in W.S. 17-19-1102, one (1) or more foreign business or nonprofit corporations may merge with one (1) or more domestic nonprofit corporations if certain conditions are satisfied.
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Wyo. Stat. § 17-19-1108. Merger with a governmental subdivision: Wyoming Nonprofit Corporation Act – Wyoming
Introduced: Status: Enacted
Except for W.S. 17-19-1102, this article does not apply if a public benefit, mutual benefit or religious corporation merges with a governmental subdivision.
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Wyo. Stat. § 17-19-1111. Limitations on consolidations by public benefit or religious corporations: Wyoming Nonprofit Corporation Act – Wyoming
Introduced: Status: Enacted
Without the prior approval of the district court in a proceeding which the secretary of state has been given written notice, a public benefit or religious corporation may consolidate only with certain entities. Without the …
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Additional Resources
STATE BUDGET
Wyoming has a biennial budget cycle that begins in July. State agencies submit their budget requests in August. Agency hearings are held September through November. The governor submits his or her proposed budget to the Wyoming State Legislature by the third Monday in November. The Wyoming State Legislature adopts a budget in March. A simple majority is required to pass a budget.
STATE LEGISLATURE
The Legislature meets in a General Session in odd numbered years, beginning on the second Tuesday of January. The General Session is limited to 40 legislative days. In even numbered years, the Legislature convenes in a Budget Session beginning on the second Monday of February, which typically lasts 20 legislative days. There are 31 members of the State Senate, 62 members of the House of Representatives. Senators serve four year terms, Representatives serve for two. Legislation carries over from odd numbered years to even.