Second Medical Charter Approved
Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga yesterday approved LBJ and Medicaid’s request for a second medical charter to transport LBJ approved referral patients to the US. The medical charter is a one-way ...Read more
Governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga yesterday approved LBJ and Medicaid’s request for a second medical charter to transport LBJ approved referral patients to the US. The medical charter is a one-way ...Read more
The LBJ Hospital has requested the Medicaid Office for another medical flight to take patients needing treatment off island. This was revealed by the Medicaid Director Sandra King-Young during ...Read more
When asked at a House hearing yesterday if there’s Medicaid funding for another medical charter to take patients needing treatment off island, Medicaid Director Sandra King Young said they do ...Read more
At the House of Representatives today: The Chairman of the House Health Committee Rep Vesi Fautanu Jr., in a quandary after hearing from ASG officials on why there’s been no repatriation flights ...Read more
If American Samoa was using individual enrollment for Medicaid rather than presumptive enrollment, the local match for the $84 million in Medicaid funding that Congress approved last year for ...Read more
Until a source of funding for a local match can be found, the $84 million that Congress approved for the American Samoa Medicaid Program last year, cannot be used. American Samoa has to come up ...Read more
US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Medicaid Director Sandra King Young and Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard are among 19 women from the US territories named by USA Today as having made significant ...Read more
The cost of the medical charter flight on Hawaiian Airlines last night was $250,000, according to Sandra King Young, Director of the American Samoa State Medicaid Office. She said for a first ...Read more
The July 21st charter flight that will be taking patients, students, military personnel and others from the territory to Honolulu is being paid by Medicaid. The flight will be operated by Hawaiian ...Read more
A historic boost in American Samoa’s federal Medicaid grant may have to wait until after Labor Day. As KHJ News Washington DC correspondent Matt Kaye reports the US House is about to adjourn ...Read more