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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After its latest COVID Task Force meeting on Monday, March 22, 2021, the COVID Task Force issued a press release after making several policy changes aimed at prioritizing resources for the ‘legitimately’ stranded residents while other categories of travelers will be...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Lessons learned from the second repatriation flight and preparations for the third repatriation in April were the main topics of discussion during the meeting of the COVID-19 Task Force on Monday, Mar. 15, 2021, at the Department of Homeland Security (EOC) in Tafuna,...
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.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The cost-share is set at $679 one-way for non medical patients on the Medicaid charter for Feb. 1st, which is the return flight of the first repatriation flight from the US with just over 150 local residents who have been stranded off island, and the incoming travelers...
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 — Despite being given fair warning by the Medicaid State Agency, as well as local news reports, some non-medical patients on the Oct. 26th medical charter took their complaints and criticism to social media after having to pay the required Medicaid cost-share of $920....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga’s request to the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for a waiver of the local 25% cost share for the COVID-19 national emergency declaration is “being held until the actual obligations for this disaster has been calculated.”
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