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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
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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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...
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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),...
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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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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a press release issued yesterday, director of the American Samoa Medicaid State Agency, Sandra King Young, announced that the local Medicaid office would open up enrollment for vision benefits services with their new local provider MyVision Eye Center, Dr. Laloasi...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a press release issued Thursday, the American Samoa Medicaid State Agency said the agency is encouraged and hopeful that the Kapiolani Children’s Hospital is slowly opening up a pathway for the Medicaid program to refer children’s cases to Honolulu. This comes after...

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