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Sandra King Young

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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...
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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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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Unless Congress acts before December 31, to pass federal legislation to provide additional Medicaid funding to American Samoa come January 2020, Medicaid will temporarily suspend certain services for patients (except reimbursements to LBJ Hospital). Medicaid added new...
Sandra King Young, director of the American Samoa Medicaid Office
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The American Samoa Medicaid Office has stopped paying for escorts for patients that are referred to New Zealand except in certain cases. The move comes because of incidents involving escorts and some patients which have put the referral programme in jeopardy. Sandra King...
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Washington, D.C. — American Samoa Medicaid issues are being deliberated on at high levels and impacting Continuing Resolution (CR) negotiations in Congress —and this is historical — according to Sandra King Young, Medicaid Director, American Samoa Medicaid State Agency. Trade mitigation assistance ...