Tennessee High Court Blocks Hospital Lien on Insurer’s Benefit Payment

Hospitals are not entitled to place liens on insurance benefits paid by insurers to third party service providers, the Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled. The case involved a man, Kevin L. Holt, who was injured in a car crash in Arkansas in 2006 and first taken by ambulance to a hospital in that state. He was later transferred to the Regional Medical Center (owned by Shelby County Health Care Corp.) in Memphis, Tenn., where he incurred almost $34,000 in expenses.