Friday, April 26, 2024
4/26/2024
U.S. Territory of American Samoa Health Exchange Program, CFDA # 93.525 ABSTRACT The U.S. Territory of American Samoa requests $1,000,000 in funding to develop a Health Exchange within its State Insurance Commissioner’s Office that will allow the Territory to reduce its Medicaid dependence and pace new investment and private industry by facilitating the purchase of qualified health plans and development of a Small Business Health Options Program. This will serve the future needs of this fast-growing Territory, which currently has almost 70,000 residents of the islands of Tutuila and Manu’a. As a small, emerging Pacific U.S. Jurisdiction (population close to 70,000), the Territory of American Samoa is a traditionally Medicare/Medicaid and TriCare-dependent system only now experiencing the influx of new third party payors. A Health Exchange will prepare the Territory for the influx of new employers and employees anticipated as the Territory grows, and will allow it reduce dependence on t
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