Every year, homeowners and business owners receive a property tax notice
from Campbell County Government. It consists of a local portion, which
is used to fund area services, and a statewide portion which is used to
fund public schools. Local taxes are paid out to different entities in
Campbell County - City, County, Hospital, Cemetery Board, and others.
Campbell County Health is not a division of
Campbell County Government. It is a separate entity with its own
Board of Trustees who are elected by the members of our community. CCH is allowed by Wyoming
statute to collect a tax levy of 3 mills each year. The mill levy is the
“tax rate” that is applied to the assessed value of a property.
One mill is one dollar per $1,000 dollars of assessed value. CCH received
$13.2 million from tax revenues in fiscal year 2019-2020.
Roughly 85 percent of the revenue is assessed from local industry while
15 percent is paid by Campbell County residents through their property
taxes. Approximately 5 percent of residential property taxes go to CCH,
officially called the Campbell County Hospital District. If you want to
see how much you contribute in taxes to the Campbell County Hospital District,
look under the “How Your Taxes Are Used” section in your tax
notice – check out the line named CNTY Hospital Dist Trust Fund.
For example, in a residential property tax bill of $1,20.60, $45.29 goes
to CCH annually.
Revenue from the mill levy is applied to CCH’s bad debt and charity
care, which totaled more than $26.5 million (unaudited) in fiscal year
2020 (July 2019-June 2020). Bad debt is when patients do not pay their
hospital bills. Charity care is when patients are unable to pay their
hospital bills, and complete a financial assistance application.
Volume of major payment sources for FY ending June 30, 2019
32% - Blue Cross Blue Shield
20% - Medicare
18% - Other Commercial Insurance Providers
10% - Self Pay
9% - Medicaid
7% - Tax Levy
2% - Worker's Compensation
2% - Other Government
CCH Board of Trustee meetings are open to the public and take place the
fourth Thursday of the month at 5 pm at CCMH, 501 S. Burma Ave, Fifth
Floor Classrooms 1 and 2. You can even view archives of the meetings
here.
