Car-A-Van Keeps Cancer Patients On the Road
Free Van Services Helps Cancer Patients Go From The Big Horn Basin to Cody for Treatment By Bob Vines For The Wyoming Medical Society CODY — Kevin Johnson has every available restroom along a 425-mile route through Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin flagged in the GPS...
WMS’ Salute to its Members Who Have Served
The Wyoming Medical Society salutes its members who have served in the US Military. The WMS printed the following pages into the Fall 2016 issue of Wyoming Medicine as a thank...
Taking Care of a Dictator
By Tom Lacock and Rob Monger Wyoming Medical Society Military deployments were nothing new for Joseph Horam, MD — he had been deployed six times before. However, this deployment to Iraq, scheduled for May 2006, started much differently than previous...
Notes from the AAP Meeting
Benard P Dreyer, MD, FAAP President and Karen Remley, MD, FAAP, Executive Vice President/CEO of the AAP sent members a letter based on actions taken at the Oct. Board of Directors Meeting. We are writing to inform you of important actions taken at the October 20-21,...
Events, Conferences, and Announcements November 14, 2016
Each week the Wyoming Medical Society receives a number of webinar, CME, and other conference opportunities which we share with our members without endorsement. This week’s list includes: Announcements As Legislative Subcommittees go, the Task Force on Department of...
UW Family Practice Residency Study Presented by Wyoming Department of Health
The University of Wyoming’s Family Practice Residency in Casper and the residency in Cheyenne have been examined by The Wyoming Department of Health. The Department of Health released that study this week to the Joint Appropriations Committee of the Wyoming...
Wyoming Department of Health Presents on Multi-Payer Claims Database
By Tom Lacock Wyoming Medical Society CHEYENNE – The much-discussed concept of a Multi-Payer Claims Data Database was center stage during the Joint Appropriations Committee (JAC) meeting in Casper on Monday. The JAC heard the findings of a study performed by the...
State’s Financial Future Seems Bleak
Members of the State Leglsiature’s Joint Appropriations Committee Listen to testimony on Oct. 22 during its meeting in Casper. By Tom Lacock Wyoming Medical Society CHEYENNE – Don Richards, the co-chair of the Consensus Revenue Estimating Group (CREG),...
Glause Tells Physicians Will Soon See Checks
By Tom Lacock Wyoming Medical Society CHEYENNE – Wyoming physicians with reimbursement claims for WINhealth clients will soon be seeing checks. Wyoming Insurance Commissioner Tom Glause joined the Wyoming Medical Society’s Oct. 22 Board meeting and said those...
Title XXV Subcommittee Reviews New Payment System
By Tom Lacock Wyoming Medical Society CHEYENNE – The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Subcommittee to Review Title XXV Issues has begun the process of payment reform for Title XXV payments to The State’s Community Mental Health Providers. The committee met Monday in...