Medicare

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Health leaders from the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming plan to travel to the nation's capital this week to try to salvage future Medicare payments.

A recent crackdown by law enforcement, on a nationwide level, has resulted in charges being leveled against 91  people-including doctors and other medical professionals-with defrauding the Medicare system of over 295$ million in false billing.

With the US Senate on their summer break, John Barrasso is spending alot of time in Wyoming attending events and hearing what his constituents have to say about his performance and the machinations of Washington D.C.

More than 1.4 millions dollars comes back into Wyoming's Medicaid program funds following a series of fraud settlements. Listen Here:

PCIP is a part of the Affordable Care Act.  It essentially allows people who do not have access to health insurance through their (or their spouse’s) employment, and who have been shut out of the individual market, to secure comprehensive insurance,

Wyoming News Service The drum beat in the U-S House to reduce federal spending is being heard close to home in Wyoming. Federal cuts of more than one billion dollars have been proposed for Community Health Centers.