Assisted Living in Wyoming: A Family Guide
What assisted living is called in Wyoming, what it costs, how Medicaid can help, how to check a community’s license and inspections, and who to call if something goes wrong. Every fact links to the official source.
- Licensed communities on Lilisity
- 34 assisted living
- Medicaid help
- Yes: Community Choices Waiver (CCW)2
- Typical cost
- $5,325 a month (state median, CareScout 2025)
- Long-term care ombudsman
- Regional: 1-800-856-4398 (Riverton region), 1-877-634-1006 (Casper region), 1-877-634-1005 (Cheyenne region)3
- File a complaint
- (307) 777-71234
What assisted living is called in Wyoming
- Assisted Living Facility, Level 1 LicenseAn assisted living facility without a secure (locked) unit.5
- Assisted Living Facility, Level 2 LicenseAn assisted living facility with a secure dementia unit. It must meet extra staffing, training and admission rules.5
Memory care rules
Assisted living with a secure dementia unit needs a Level 2 license. Level 2 facilities must meet all Level 1 rules plus extra rules for management, staffing, staff dementia training, activities, and admission and discharge.5
Questions to ask memory care about nights.
What assisted living costs in Wyoming
The median cost of assisted living in Wyoming is $5,325 a month, below the national median of $6,200 (CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025, collected July to November 2025). Prices vary with the apartment, the level of care and the community, so ask each one for its current rate sheet, including care-level fees.
If more care is needed later: nursing home costs in Wyoming, with CareScout medians and the private-pay rates Wyoming nursing homes publish.
Plan with our free tools: how long will the money last? and home care or assisted living?
Paying for assisted living in Wyoming
Medicare does not pay for assisted living. Families pay from savings and income, long-term care insurance, or benefits such as VA Aid and Attendance (estimate it). Who actually pays for long-term care.
Medicaid. Wyoming Medicaid's Community Choices Waiver covers assisted living facility services as an alternative to nursing home care. It serves people 65 and older and adults 19 to 64 with a disability. They must qualify financially for Medicaid (or the waiver's special group) and be found by the state to need nursing-facility level of care. Program: Community Choices Waiver (CCW).2 Medicaid does not pay rent or meals in assisted living in any state, and not every community accepts it, so ask each one.
How to check a community in Wyoming
Look up a license. HLS posts a directory of licensed healthcare facilities as an Excel file and a PDF (updated September 21, 2026). Search Wyoming’s records.6
Inspection reports. HLS links to an online site with inspection reports for licensed healthcare facilities in Wyoming.7
Lilisity shows Wyoming’s inspection record on each community’s page where the state publishes one: the state’s own records, dated and linked to the official source.
Always visit in person, at a mealtime or in the evening if you can. Bring the tour scorecard and the 8 tour questions.
If something goes wrong
Complaints about care or conditions. HLS investigates complaints about care in licensed facilities, including assisted living. Anyone can file, even anonymously, by phone, fax or mail. Do not email the complaint form. HLS does not handle billing or insurance complaints. Call (307) 777-7123 or file online.4
Abuse, neglect or exploitation. Call (307) 777-7123. How to report.4 If someone is in danger, call 911.
The long-term care ombudsman is a free advocate for residents of assisted living and nursing homes: they help resolve problems with a community, including move-out notices. Call Regional: 1-800-856-4398 (Riverton region), 1-877-634-1006 (Casper region), 1-877-634-1005 (Cheyenne region) or find your local ombudsman.3
Find assisted living in Wyoming
Every community and county in Wyoming
Common questions
Wyoming Medicaid's Community Choices Waiver covers assisted living facility services as an alternative to nursing home care. It serves people 65 and older and adults 19 to 64 with a disability. They must qualify financially for Medicaid (or the waiver's special group) and be found by the state to need nursing-facility level of care. Medicaid does not pay rent or meals in assisted living.
The median is $5,325 a month (CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025), compared with $6,200 nationally.
Wyoming Department of Health, Aging Division, Healthcare Licensing and Surveys (HLS).
HLS investigates complaints about care in licensed facilities, including assisted living. Anyone can file, even anonymously, by phone, fax or mail. Do not email the complaint form. HLS does not handle billing or insurance complaints. Phone: (307) 777-7123.
HLS posts a directory of licensed healthcare facilities as an Excel file and a PDF (updated September 21, 2026).
Sources
- Licensing agency (health.wyo.gov)
- Medicaid (health.wyo.gov)
- Ombudsman (health.wyo.gov)
- Complaints, reporting abuse (health.wyo.gov)
- License types, memory care rules (health.wyo.gov)
- License lookup (health.wyo.gov)
- Inspection reports (ohlssurvey.health.wyo.gov)
- CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025 (state medians)
Facts checked against these official sources on September 28, 2026. Rules and programs change; confirm with the agency before making a decision. General information, not legal or financial advice.
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