WY F2F News & Publications
Packaging Wisdom:
A Family Centered Care Coordination Notebook
The newly updated 3rd Edition of Packaging Wisdom: A Family Care Coordination Notebook is now a digital, fillable, saveable, and printable notebook! This notebook is a great resource for families to help organize information regarding your child's chronic health needs. Packaging Wisdom will help make it easier to keep track of health care changes, contacts, and share information with your child's care team, child care, school, and family members.
Download the complete Packaging Wisdom: A Family Centered Care Coordination Notebook, or any of the following sections:
- Cover
- Introduction
- All About Me!
- Medical and Health Care Information
- Insurance Coverage and Financial Resources
- Contact Information
- Early Intervention & Special Education
- Emergency Preparedness
- Looking Ahead- Transition to Adulthood
- Correspondence/Communication
- Glossary of Commonly Used Terms
- Wyoming Public Health Offices
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Wyoming Public Health Programs Chart
View this WY Public Health Programs Chart for a quick view of the following WY Public Health Programs available to Wyoming Families.
The chart includes eligibility, services, and contact information for:
- Kid Care CHIP,
- Medicaid/Title 19,
- WY Health Insurance Premium Program (WHIPP),
- Employed Individuals with Disabilities (EID),
- Children's Special Health Program),
- Children's Mental Health Waiver,
- Children's Developmental Disabilities Waiver,
- Jason's Friends (Cancer), Wyoming Cares,
- Community Action-Healthcare for Homeless Programs,
- and Wyoming Prescription Drug Assistance Program.
Healthlink.wyo.gov
HealthLink is an online application and screening tool for Medicaid and Kid Care CHIP health insurance programs. Access more information and the online application at https://healthlink.wyo.gov.
HealthLink provides access to: Medicaid Family and Children's programs and Kid Care CHIP program and allows you to:
- apply at any time of the day or night
- have up to 30 days to complete a saved application in progress and can log in and out of the system as you please.
- Application processing begins the moment you submit your application electronically.
- When you click the "Submit" button, the application is sent for eligibility determination.
HealthLink does not confirm eligibility. Benefit Specialists for the Department of Family Services determine Medicaid eligibility, and Eligibility Specialists for the Wyoming Department of Health determine Kid Care CHIP eligibility.
New Immunization Guidelines
October 2011 -- Due to budget constraints, the Immunization Section will transition from a Universal to a Universal-Select purchase state effective July 1, 2011. Under the Universal –Select guidelines, the federal Vaccines for Children (VFC) program will continue to provide vaccines at no cost to qualifying children 18 and younger who are uninsured, Native American/Alaskan Native, or Medicaid eligible. Children in Wyoming who are under insured may receive VFC vaccine at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) or a Rural Health Clinic (RHC). Under insured children outside of an FQHC or RHC and children who have health insurance are not considered VFC-eligible and should not receive VFC vaccine.
Children who are aged 18 years and younger, are residents of Wyoming, and are under insured , making them ineligible for the VFC program, can still receive vaccines from the Wyoming Vaccinates Important People (WyVIP) program. As of July 1, 2011, the WyVIP program will only provide single antigen or combinations of the following vaccines to under insured and insured children: diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTaP), polio, hepatitis B, Hib, measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), pneumococcal conjugate (PCV), rotavirus, tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap), and varicella. Providers wishing to provide human papillomavirus (HPV), meningococcal conjugate, hepatitis A, and influenza vaccines to non-VFC-eligible children will need to purchase these vaccines directly from the manufacturer.
As defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the VFC Operations Guide, an under insured child is "a child who has insurance but the coverage does not include vaccines, a child whose insurance covers only selected vaccines or a child whose insurance caps vaccine coverage at a certain amount. Once that coverage amount is reached, the child is categorized as under insured. Under insured children are eligible to receive VFC vaccine only through a Federally Qualified Health Center or Rural Health Clinic." Children who have not met their insurance deductible are not considered under insured.
The public may access a Vaccine Eligibility Table at www.immunizewyoming.com or by calling the Immunization Section at 307-777-7952. For policy questions, please contact Lisa Wordeman, Vaccine Program Specialist, Immunization Section, at 307-777-2413 or lisa.wordeman@health.wyo.gov.
