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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) states that “available federal funding opportunities require a local cost matching,” says Office of Disaster Assistance and Petroleum Management (ODAPM) director Lisa Tuato’o, who leads the ASG established BIL Team and she is also...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a brief statement, the American Samoa Medicaid State Agency announced that it received notice yesterday of its fiscal year 2023 — which began Oct. 01, 2022 — federal grant award for $89.21 million, for medical care services.
According to the Medicaid office, the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The lack of local matching funds for the $86 million annual allocation to the American Samoa Medicaid State Agency has resulted in the return of millions of dollars in Medicaid funds in the last two years back to the U.S Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS),...
Washington, D.C. — Imagine a health care system that serves over 3.5 million U.S. citizens (more than the state of Utah) facing up to an 85 percent cut to its federal funding allocation every few years. This is the case for the five U.S. territories — American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Earlier this year, U.S, President Joe Biden directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to increase the federal cost share for COVID-19 Public Assistance funding from 75 percent to 100 percent. This memo built on a previous memo issued in January and included...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two more medical charters are now scheduled for this month including one that will be used as a “test flight” bringing in up to 100 passengers, including medical personnel and government officials who will test local preparations when commercial flights between Honolulu...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With no local matching funds provided by the territorial government, all services provided by the American Samoa Medicaid State Agency, have been suspended for the rest of this fiscal year 2021, and that includes any medical charters, except for the one already set for...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The legalisation of medicinal marijuana has been put forward as a way to release Medicaid funding for American Samoa.
Until a source of local funding ca be found, the $US84 million the US Congress approved for the territory cannot be used.
American Samoa has to come up...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata welcomed an in-depth briefing provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Region 9 Director Robert Fenton on the agency’s action plan to assist in coronavirus efforts in American Samoa and other island territories, and she supports...