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Washington, D.C. — A prompt bipartisan vote in the U.S. Senate, only hours after the House vote Thursday, fully funds the U.S. government through February 18, 2022, sending the bill to President Biden to be signed into law in time to prevent a shutdown. Without action, a shutdown would have started...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa will receive around $88 million in Medicaid funding for the fiscal year (FY) 2022. It’s an increase from FY 2020 and 2021 allotments, which were around $86 million.
In a letter to the local Medicaid Director, Sandra King Young, dated September 24, 2021,...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is welcoming a response letter from the Biden Administration directly expressing President Biden’s support for a Medicaid priority that is shared by the Territories, as introduced legislatively earlier this year with the unanimous bipartisan backing...
Washington, D.C. — Saturday, Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata welcomed an agreement in Congress to move forward with legislation that would stabilize Medicaid funding for the Territories through an eight-year plan for American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U....
Washington, D.C. — Tuesday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata pointed out the specific improvements to American Samoa’s Medicaid in this two-year Congress, which made two major reforms that directly benefit American Samoa.
First, instead of the longstanding 55-45 percent split, American Samoa benefits from...
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday to repeal the cap on federal Medicaid funding for the U.S. insular areas. Unlike the states, which have unlimited federal funding,
American Samoa, Guam, the...
Washington, D.C.—Saturday, Congresswoman Aumua Amata is highlighting an increase in the federal share for the Territory’s Medicaid. As a result of Coronavirus response legislation, the federal share for American Samoa will rise from 83 percent to 89.2 percent (trimming the local match to 10.8...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary, Insular and International Affairs, Douglas W. Domenech applauds President Trump and Congress for signing the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020, Public Law 116-94, which includes among other things funding increases for...
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Aumua Amata said that the House has passed an extension of level federal government spending that includes an extra month for American Samoa’s 100 percent federal Medicaid match rate, now extended another 30 days through December 20, 2019.
This is the second...
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...