Updated September 4, 2026. Quick answer: Wyoming requires every county memorial hospital to furnish completely free facilities and maintenance to county residents who have no means to pay.
This guide is limited to the cited Wyoming county-memorial-hospital source and its stated scope.
What changes in Wyoming
- A county memorial hospital may charge a person able to pay a reasonable price for use of the hospital and its facilities during the time required for proper treatment.
- The same hospital shall furnish free to residents of the county having no means to pay all necessary facilities and maintenance during the time they are required to remain there for proper treatment.
- The identical free-care duty extends to a private lessee or operator who contracts to run the hospital, so the obligation survives outsourced management.
Where this rule stops
This duty applies specifically to county memorial hospitals and their contracted operators, a distinct category from every Wyoming hospital regardless of ownership; it is not a general statewide charity-care-eligibility law.
How to verify before you apply
- Identify the hospital or facility covered by the source and obtain its current policy.
- Ask for the current written policy and application instructions.
- Compare the policy with the official source below before relying on any threshold, discount, or deadline.
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Primary source
Read Wyo. Stat. § 18-8-106. Verify the current official text and the facility’s current policy before acting; this is a source-backed planning guide, not individualized legal advice.