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Medicaid Office
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Medicaid State Agency has provided the Fono with an “Expenditures Summary Financial Report” covering fiscal years 2013 up to 2022, for expenses covered by Medicaid for medial providers eligible to receive federal Medicaid funding support.
The summary...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a 3-hour hearing before the House Committee on Health, chaired by Faipule Andra Samoa, yesterday, Thursday, Mar. 17, Medicaid director Sandra King Young testified that TALOFAPASS, the online platform solution that ASG created in 2021 to manage and continue travel...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — For American Samoa to qualify for the 17% local match instead of the current 30% local match for Medicaid funding, ASG Medicaid Office director Sandra King-Young told the Fono Joint Budget Committee last week that the local Medicaid program must transition into “...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The government is continuing to work on a solution to “enable and streamline the payment of cost shares from repatriation passengers while they are off-island,” according to a media release from the COVID-19 Task Force, dated Feb. 16, 2021.
Apologizing for the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa is requesting a “quarantine exemption” waiver from the Hawaii state government for all passengers arriving in Honolulu on the Jan. 13th medical charter flight — while at the same time, Hawaii authorities are requesting accommodation information in Honolulu...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Non-patient cost-share for the medical charter — which is now re-scheduled for Jan. 13, 2021 — is $911 for the one-way flight, according the American Samoa Medicaid State Agency — or Medicaid Office — in a brief announcement late yesterday morning posted on its Facebook...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga is “optimistic” that the government will be able to re-establish the off-island medical referral program with Hawai’i healthcare providers, following two years of successful reimbursement and services provided through New Zealand medical...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Over $100 million remains in the balance of unspent federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) money for American Samoa and this entire amount will be returned to the federal government at the end of this month if it is not used, according to the American Samoa Medicaid Agency’s...