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“EXPANDING MEDICAID HCBS WAIVERS “

To the Editor, American Samoa is facing a critical and urgent gap in long-term care — and the solution is within reach through the expansion of Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waivers. Today, too many families are left to manage complex medical conditions at home with little...

Medicaid initiating expanded coverage for American Samoa

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Two new Medicaid state planning amendments are expected to go into effect soon for American Samoa. Children’s orthodontics and dialysis coverage for Hope Dialysis have been submitted for approval after The American Samoa Medicaid State Agency working together with the...

Am Samoa gets $4.2M to design & develop new Medicaid systems

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Medicaid State Agency has been awarded $4.2 million at a 100% Federal Matching Assistance Percentage (FMAP) from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to plan, develop and adopt an Eligibility and Enrollment (E&E) system and a...

[l-r] Gov. Lourdes Leon Guerrero of Guam, American Samoa’s Gov. Lemanu P.S. Mauga, and Gov. Arnold I. Palacios of CNMI

Lemanu briefs U.S. Senate on Medicaid “dilemma” for American Samoa's permanent residents

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga shared with a U.S. Senate committee last Thursday, American Samoa’s “dilemma” in which a percentage of local residents, who have made the territory their home for 20 years, don’t qualify for the federally funded Medicaid program. “Our dilemma in...

Medicaid Office granted $89.21 million in fed funding for FY2023

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...

Medicaid vision screening process opens for adults as well as children

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Medicaid office will open up its screening process for all eligible adult and child beneficiaries, for the New Vision program beginning Monday, October 3, 2022. Screening will be available at the ASTCA Executive Building, 3rd-floor, Suite #306, from 8 am to 3 pm...

Sandra King-Young (left) and Stuart Portma

ASG Medicaid director lobbies congress for support on two issues

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — ASG Medicaid director Sandra King-Young has been making the rounds in Washington D.C., meeting earlier this week with Congressional committees with jurisdiction over the federal Medicaid program speaking about two issues important to American Samoa. One issue is the...

[l-r] Faiilagi Poufa-Faiai; Dr. Laloasi Petaia-Steffany, Phillip Iosefo

Medicaid Myvision Eye Center opens

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Medicaid Office staffers came together with Dr. Petaia-Steffany on training day to prepare the MyVision Eye Clinic to start seeing youth 21years and under — the first Medicaid beneficiaries on island to access the vision screening, eyeglasses and contact lense...

Medicaid dollars for Am Samoa returned for lack of matching funds

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),...

Medicaid resumes non-emergency patient referrals to New Zealand

Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a press release issued late last week, American Samoa Medicaid State Agency director, Sandra King Young announced that the local Medicaid office is resuming immediately the non-emergency patient referrals to New Zealand. “Now that NZ and Samoa have reopened borders...

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