Wyoming · Checked October 22, 2026
Non-medical home care is not state-licensed in Wyoming — but the lanes around it are regulated, and the skilled door is a different license.
Checked in part. Home health licensure, bond and administrator rules are primary-verified. The no-license conclusion for purely non-medical agencies follows from the statutory definition ('nursing or other health care services') and the absence of any personal care category in HLS facility types; no primary source states it in one sentence. The exact HLS license fee amount is set in Department fee rules and was not published on the pages retrieved, so it is null here. Anything the state does not publish is printed as "Not published" below — never filled from blogs or consultancy tables. Confirm on the agency page before you budget.
| Item | Wyoming |
|---|---|
| License / registration | No state license category for a standalone non-medical / personal care agency. Wyoming licenses Home Health Agencies as health care facilities (Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-901 et seq.; home health agency defined at § 35-2-901(a)(xi) as an agency 'primarily engaged in arranging and directly providing nursing or other health care services to persons at their residence'). |
| Issued by | Wyoming Department of Health, Aging Division, Healthcare Licensing and Surveys (HLS) — official page |
| Application / initial fee | Not published — No license fee for non-medical agencies (no license exists). For home health agencies, HLS requires the application 'along with the required fee' but the fee amount is set in the Department of Health licensure fee rules (Chapter 1) and was not published on the HLS home health page reviewed; Wyo. Stat. § 35-2-904 caps department licensure fees at $500. Amount not published in the sources retrieved — null, do not invent. |
| Renewal | Home health licenses are issued for one year, July 1-June 30, and renewed annually on payment of the license fee (§ 35-2-904(b)-(c)); the specific renewal amount was not published in the sources retrieved. |
| Surety bond | $2,500 — Applies to the licensed home health agency, not to non-medical agencies: the governing body must obtain a fidelity bond for client protection of no less than $2,500, augmented in relation to the number of employees (Wyoming home health rules, Chapter 9 § 5; also item 2 of the HLS licensure checklist). |
| Liability insurance | State sets no minimum |
| Timeline | State does not publish a processing time. HLS process: paperwork approval, then a provisional license to start serving clients; the agency must request an initial survey once it is providing two or more services, an unannounced survey follows 'as soon as scheduling permits,' and a permanent license issues on compliance (HLS home health page). |
| Administrator | No administrator standard for non-medical agencies. For home health agencies, a qualified administrator must be a licensed physician, a registered nurse, or a college graduate with a bachelor's degree and at least three years of health care management experience — or, without a degree, the documented equivalent of six years of supervisory experience in health care management; a supervisory nurse is also required and may be the same person if dually qualified (Chapter 9 § 5). |
| State extras | Home health route: fidelity bond premium ($2,500 minimum bond, scaled by employee count), Department of Family Services central registry checks, and the HLS license fee set by Department rules (statutory cap $500). |
| Service | Under this license |
|---|---|
| Companionship & supervision | Covered |
| Homemaker help | Covered |
| Hands-on personal care | Covered |
| Live-in / 24-hour care | Not covered by this license |
| Transportation | Not covered by this license |
| Skilled nursing or therapy | Home health license required |
Coverage shown is descriptive of what an unlicensed private-pay agency may offer, not a licensed scope. Because the statutory home health definition turns on 'nursing or other health care services,' a purely non-medical companion/homemaker/personal-care agency does not fit the licensed category in the sources reviewed; it also may not hold itself out as a home health agency. Within a licensed home health agency, home health aides (who must be CNAs) provide personal care in the home under supervisory-nurse instructions. Live-in and transport are not named categories in the licensure sources reviewed.
Home Health Agency license from Healthcare Licensing and Surveys is required before providing care: application + fee, fidelity bond, DFS central registry checks, organizational chart, administrator and supervisory nurse qualifications, service-area list, and policies (quality management, scope of services). Provisional license first, then unannounced initial survey, then permanent license. A state license does not enroll or certify the agency for Medicare/Medicaid — CMS-855A enrollment and certification are separate, and Medicare approval is a prerequisite to Wyoming Medicaid participation (HLS).
Medicaid home health follows Medicare certification (HLS states such approval is prerequisite to qualifying for the state Medicaid program). Non-medical personal care for members is delivered through Wyoming Medicaid Community Choices Waiver / personal care enrollment as a Medicaid provider, not through HLS facility licensure.
EVV is required for Medicaid personal care services under the federal 21st Century Cures Act as implemented by Wyoming Medicaid.
The state fee above is one line of the real total. Run the true-cost calculator with Wyoming selected — it adds the bond premium, insurance class, screening and the payroll runway your first hires create.
This page is information, not legal advice. Confirm before you file: the agency — not this page — decides your application.
The free checkers give you the verdict and the number. The Kit gives you the working papers: your state's application packet walked through in filing order, the policies-and-procedures binder spec (what your binder must contain — never a boilerplate binder), the administrator self-audit, the insurance & bond spec sheet, the Medicaid gate map, the franchise-vs-independent 10-year worksheets, and the payroll-runway planner.
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