If you are paying lien-filing fees on your medical-legal expenses I think you are (a) wasting your money, and (b) causing unnecessary deferral of your receivables until after the case in chief gets resolved.
The Workers' Compensation Appeals Board has given clear regulations instructing providers on how to get collection issues that do not involve independent bill review resolved through a petition and declaration of readiness without filing a lien, yet so many providers that I talk to continue to believe they should file a lien.
SB 863 CHANGED THE LIEN SYSTEM STARTING IN 2013
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