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Wyoming's program for children with special health needs

The Children’s Special Health Program helps Wyoming children with long-term health needs connect with care.

What it is

The Children’s Special Health Program helps Wyoming children with long-term health needs connect with care.

Children’s Special Health can help families explore care coordination for long-term health needs. The program confirms your child’s age and condition rules. It also confirms whether it can help with cancer care or travel costs.

Eligibility rules
  • Children's Special Health has its own age, condition and financial rules, which the program must check for this child.
  • The program confirms whether leukemia and the planned care qualify under its current rules. A cancer diagnosis alone does not establish financial help.
What you get
  • Help connecting with a regular doctor and coordinating care.
Coverage and costs
  • Any help with treatment, travel or family costs must be confirmed by the program for this child and these services. Your social worker can help obtain the approved services, dates, providers and any family share in writing before you rely on payment.
If you decide to apply
  1. Ask your hospital social worker to help identify the current Children’s Special Health contact and discuss whether your child’s condition fits.
  2. If you decide to explore the program, ask about the application appointment and which documents to bring.

Wyoming Department of Health · Children’s Special Health program directory · Official page ↗

After you apply
  • Approval comes in a letter naming the conditions and care covered.
  • The program confirms the document list, expected decision time and process for urgent treatment-related requests. Your social worker can help obtain those answers.
Good to know

Any covered help is limited to the conditions and clinicians named in the family’s approval letter.

Other details
  • The program’s current directory and application office can confirm the appropriate contact. A general care-coordination referral is separate from approval to pay for treatment.
Official sources
Ask your social worker

“Does the Children’s Special Health Program help with our child’s cancer care or travel? What would it cost us, and could you help arrange an appointment if it is useful?”

Why I’m asking: I would like help coordinating care near home as well as at the treatment hospital.

More background and detailed requirements
Additional program information and published rules

Who does what

The three parts, side by side. The agency decides; nobody on this page does.

You

Make one phone call and ask two questions: is cancer on the list, and what does it pay.

Your social worker

The public health nurse takes the application at an appointment.

The care team

Records and letters when the application asks for them.

Who decides
The Children's Special Health Program.
Ask the agency
“My child has leukemia. Is that a qualifying condition for the Children's Special Health Program, and what does the programme pay for?”

How to apply

First step: Call 307-777-6921 and ask whether leukemia is a qualifying condition and what the programme pays.

  1. Call 307-777-6921 and ask whether a cancer diagnosis is on the programme's list.
  2. Ask what it pays and whether it can help with travel.
  3. If it fits, ring your local public health nursing office for an appointment.

Official application / program page ↗

Where it starts: Call your local public health nursing office, or the Indian Health Service office, to make an appointment to apply.

What to gather

  • The diagnosis in writing
  • Your child's date of birth
  • Your local public health nursing office's number

How long: Not published. Ask at the appointment.

What a yes looks like

An authorisation letter naming the conditions and the providers it covers.

What a no looks like, and the next move

A refusal on the condition list or on income. Ask which, and what the income line is.

Watch out

  • We could not confirm that cancer is on its list of conditions; ask before you count on it.
  • It only covers the conditions and providers named in your own letter.
  • The handbook prints a different phone number from the programme page; use 307-777-6921.

The numbers and the rules

The arcane layer, kept on purpose. Checked September 11, 2026.

What it is worth

Extra help for a child under 18 with a long-term condition, limited to the conditions and providers in the family's authorisation letter. What it pays is unknown.

Covers: Help arranging a regular doctor and coordinating care · Extra help limited to the conditions and providers named in the authorisation letter

What it costs the family: Unknown: no current cost-share schedule was published.

The eligibility facts, as published

Age
under 18, per the posted handbook
Condition
a long-term physical, developmental, behavioural or emotional condition, or being at increased risk of one
Income
unknown: no current income table was published
Scope
limited to the conditions and providers in the current authorisation letter

The trap: Applying starts with an appointment at your local public health nursing office rather than a form you can download. Call the programme first and ask whether a cancer diagnosis is on its list, because we could not confirm it.

Where I read this

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