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Ambulance company sues state over Katrina bill
An ambulance company hired one day after Hurricane Katrina landed is suing the state for about $755,000 the company says is owed for being sent to Louisiana.
Metrocare EMS, based in Nederland, said in a suit filed in Jefferson County District Court last week that six of its fully staffed ambulances were deployed to a staging area in Baton Rouge, La., at the request of state officials.
The suit alleges that the state agreed to pay Metrocare $5,500 per day for each unit deployed. Metrocare said the bill came to about $1.15 million, but the state's only payment was $400,000
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