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American Samoa Medicaid Office

Sandra King Young
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The reasons behind the closure of the Hope Dialysis Center (HDC), LBJ's role in the treatment process for HDC’s dialysis patients, and the suspension of Medicaid funding for the patients' off-island referral program were explained in detail in yesterday's hearing of the...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Medicaid State Agency (ASMSA) notified Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga and Lt. Gov. Talauega E.V. Ale in a memorandum dated January 16, 2024 of the depletion of local match at the end of the 2nd quarter of FY 2024 on March 31, 2024. At the time the Medicaid...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Medicaid State Agency is making progress to advance an AS Medicaid Provider Agreement with Queens Hospital in Hawaii, to enable the American Samoa Medicaid State Agency to refer patients to the Queens hospital system, according to Medicaid Director...
Hope Dialysis treatment room
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — According to a media release from the Hope Dialysis Center (HDC), dated Mar. 28, 2022, the dialysis center has not been paid for Medicaid services in over 7 months and points to a requirement of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), who regulates local...
Some Medicaid staff members and Sandra King Young
This photo posted to the ASG Medicaid Office Facebook page shows director Sandra King-Young (far right) with some of her staff during a holiday get together last week. King-Young publicly thanked her staff for their hard work.  [photo: ASG Medicaid Office Facebook]
Matilda Kruse and NAMD Director Matt Salo
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Medicaid State Agency is a recipient of the National Association of Medicaid Directors (NAMD) annual Spotlight Award for 2021. The award recognizes the unparalleled work Medicaid agencies have done in service to the 80 million people covered by the...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Medicaid State Agency is initiating with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and a local provider the creation of a new Medicaid service—to provide prescription eyeglasses to Medicaid beneficiaries. “We are currently in the process of...
Amata and  Rep. Darren Soto
Washington, D.C. — Legislation directing Medicaid funding to American Samoa for the next eight years was introduced this week. Congresswoman Amata is an original cosponsor of this key bill, which locks in the nation’s best non-emergency federal matching rate, known as FMAP, at 83 percent for the...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two important changes have been announced from the Office of the Governor, American Samoa Medicaid Agency. Updates over the next few days on check-in time, etc. will be released as the information comes available. FIRST Due to unforeseen circumstances, the medical...
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Washington, D.C. — Right now, there are dozens of patients — U.S. citizens — in New Zealand hospitals who are fighting the clock. They have only a few weeks to recover and get home to the tiny island of American Samoa, a U.S. territory in the South Pacific. "We have a cancer patient that is coming...

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