After the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling in regard to Medicaid and Medicare patients, the University of Wyoming is working to comply with a federal COVID-19 vaccination mandate regarding units that serve these patients.
Employees of the units affected by the ruling include UW’s family medicine residency centers in Casper and Cheyenne, the Albany Community Health Clinic in Laramie, the Speech, Language,
Wyoming Behavioral Institute (a subsidiary of Universal Health Services) has announced that they will be requiring their staff to be fully vaccinated by January 4, 2022.
Now Democrats are trying to make those benefits a standard part of Medicare under massive legislation expected later this year to advance President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda.