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MARRERO, La. (AP) - Doctors at a hospital outside New Orleans sued the state Monday, seeking $100 million they say they are owed for providing free care to poor and uninsured patients following Hurricane Katrina.
The lawsuit, brought by 381 physicians at West Jefferson Medical Center, says the state failed to reimburse them for treating indigent patients since the Aug. 29, 2005, hurricane closed the state-funded Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
"This is severely straining our area emergency rooms, and the lack of proper outpatient care is harming these patients," said K. Barton Farris, medical director of the Jefferson Parish hospital's laboratory.
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