Houston Hospitals Take Patients From New Orleans

[MaineDem]

Six children in serious condition and needing medical care arrived in Houston Wednesday on small planes from Louisiana.

They're among the first patients being evacuated from New Orleans hospitals flooded by Hurricane Katrina. Memorial Hermann Hospital sent six ambulances, two helicopters and two small planes to the airport in Baton Rouge, La.

From there, the helicopters flew to New Orleans, where they began picking up patients from Ochsner Hospital.

Numerous hospitals in Texas, including those at the famed Texas Medical Center in Houston, are opening their doors to patients who needed care.

http://www.wdsu.com/news/4918201/detail.html

[Holly_Hobby]

1. I wonder

if their HMO will make them pay the extra 10% because they're out of the network.

[Sgent]

2. There's a question

of weather the HMO will pay anything -- since they are now underwater (at least the largest one in the NOLA area).