Consumer Information

Other resources:

Guide to Choosing a Nursing Home

Nursing Home Checklist – Items to ask about and check for when searching for a long-term care facility.

Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Hotline.  A confidential means for reporting information regarding fraud, waste, and mismanagement in any Department of Health and Human Services program.

Long-Term Care Ombudsman.  The Ombudsman helps residents of long-term care facilities protect their health, safety, welfare, and rights, and works to resolve individual resident issues.

Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.  The unit investigates and prosecutes Medicaid provider fraud and patient abuse and neglect in Medicaid-funded facilities under the direction of the Wyoming Attorney General.

Medicaid – Wyoming

Medicare – Federal

Mountain-Pacific Quality Health.  The Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for Wyoming, under the direction of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Wyoming Protection and Advocacy Systems, Inc.  A nonprofit corporation authorized by Congress to implement several federal laws to protect the human, civil, and legal rights of people with disabilities.