The President signed Public Law 119-103, the federal stopgap funding law. Section 2006 raises the Northern Mariana Islands' fiscal 2026 Medicaid allotment by $21.4 million as disaster relief, available until spent.
CMS approved MP-24-0002 on May 1, 2024, effective January 1, to provide 12 months of continuous eligibility to all CNMI children under 19 in the territory's single eligibility group, including children eligible through a Medically Needy spenddown.
CMS approved SPA MP-25-0002 on January 27, 2026, effective October 1, 2025. Using section 1902(j), the amendment exempts CNMI from the federal requirement to cover the mandatory medication-assisted-treatment benefit for opioid use disorder.
CMS approved MP-26-0001 on May 14, 2026, effective April 1 through the end of the Super Typhoon Sinlaku public-health emergency. For eligibility determinations processed on or after April 1, CNMI may disregard all resources.
HHS TAGGS records a $1,966,025 FY2026 Health Center Program non-competing continuation for Kagman Community Health Center, Inc. On April 22, 2026 under award H8031624.
CHCC's official job page, observed August 16, lists three clinical examination announcements opened August 11–14: Clinical Laboratory Scientist EA26-097 in Saipan (closes September 1); Utilization Review Nurse EA26-101 in Saipan (closes September 4)…
Observed August 16, Isla Community Health's current provider page names nine clinicians: physicians Anthony Stearns, MD; Tiffany Willis, MD; Nicole Joyner-Powell, DO; and Daniel Lamar, MD; physician assistant Alexander Johanson, PA…
Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation Public Health Services’ July 7, 2026 Bavi update says the Lucia Chiang Villagomez Arizapa Health Center resumed from 8 a.m. To 5:30 p.m. With its emergency room open 24/7…
Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation’s CNMI Maternal and Child Health FY2024 annual report/FY2026 application, created September 24, 2025, reports 6.59 Title V-funded FTEs including current vacancies.
The CNMI Office of the Governor reports that Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation held the ribbon-cutting for its new FCC Specialty Clinics on February 13, 2025.
CHCC’s dated May 18 emergency update lists schedules for Family Care, Children’s, Women’s, specialty, dialysis and oncology services; says dialysis returned to regular shift hours; and lists multiple public-health programs as open.
The Commonwealth Medicaid Agency provider directory, last updated March 31, 2026, lists Kagman Community Health Center, Inc. Doing business as Kagman Isla Community Health as an enrolled FQHC primary-care clinic accepting new Medicaid patients.
HHS TAGGS records two FY2025 Health Center Program actions for Kagman Community Health Center, Inc.—$983,013 on March 6 and $983,012 on July 14—for $1,966,025 under award H8031624.
GAO reported that CNMI had 7,220 foreign workers in 2024, approximately 32% of its workforce, and that the CW-1 transition period ends December 31, 2029 unless Congress changes the law.
Marianas Variety reported that Gov. Arnold Palacios told the U.S. Health secretary in an April 3, 2024 letter that CNMI's roughly $65 million federal Medicaid allotment had been depleted…
A MEDITECH announcement dated April 17, 2025 says CHCC selected Expanse to create one patient record across CHCC facilities and care teams, including its Tinian and Rota health centers, with mobile access for clinicians.
CMS approved MP-24-0004 on March 27, 2025, effective October 1, 2024. The amendment covers limited, medically necessary transportation with prior approval and requires the least expensive medically appropriate mode.
MP-26-0002, approved June 2, 2026 and effective April 1 for the Sinlaku emergency period, adds on-island disaster-related behavioral and mental-health services under the rehabilitation benefit.
GAO recommended that Interior, working with Labor, Homeland Security, CNMI, and other appropriate agencies, identify and analyze options for responding to risks associated with the end of CW-1.
CMS describes CNMI Medicaid as a 100% fee-for-service program operating under a broad section 1902(j) waiver while remaining subject to the section 1108 federal funding cap and the statutory FMAP.
CMS's June 2026 interim final rule implements section 1902(xx) for the 50 states and the District of Columbia and states expressly that the provisions do not apply to U.S. Territories.
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