Malama TV - http://malama.solupress.com/malama/ Original Article URL: http://malama.solupress.com/malama/news/articles/article2529.asp LBJ Hospital Gets Additional Funding From Medicare Medicaid By Malama TV News Wednesday, May 28, 2008 The LBJ Tropical Medical Center has been awarded additional funding of close to $146,000 from the center for Medicare and Medicaid, according to a CMS announcement last week. The federal agency is funding a total of $12.1 million for all U.S. Insular areas for fiscal year 2008.  American Samoa’s share of this amount is $630,000 for fiscal year 2008, and the same for fiscal year 2009. According to LBJ CEO Patricia Tindall, American Samoa is eligible to participate under a 65 to 35 match basis.  In other words, LBJ has to come up with 35 percent of the program costs in order to be eligible to receive the federal program funding.