{"id":353121,"date":"2021-10-07T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=353121"},"modified":"2021-10-07T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T20:00:30","slug":"biden-signs-insular-fmap-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/biden-signs-insular-fmap-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden signs insular FMAP extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden has signed into law\u00a0the continuing resolution that keeps the federal government funded through Dec. 3. Tucked into\u00a0Section 3105 of the bill\u00a0is an extension of\u00a0the current, very favorable matching rates for insular area Medicaid\u201483% federal\/17% local, according to Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan\u2019s digital newsletter, e-kilili, over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout the extension the matching rates [the Federal Medical Assistance Percentages] would have reverted to 55% federal\/45% local, increasing by millions of dollars the Commonwealth\u2019s cost of providing Medicaid services to 38,000 people in the Marianas,\u201d the newsletter states.<\/p>\n<p>The FMAP extension follows last month\u2019s decision by the Biden administration to provide\u00a0$64.01 million to the Marianas for Medicaid in fiscal year 2022, which began on Oct. 1, 2021. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an increase of over $2 million from fiscal 2021. Our next goal will be to keep the FMAP extension in legislation we will pass before Dec. 3 to fund the federal government for all of fiscal 2022,\u201d the newsletter added. <em>(Saipan Tribune)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden has signed into law\u00a0the continuing resolution that keeps the federal government funded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":353122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4737],"class_list":["post-353121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-fmap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}