California's automatic lien stay was born of a desire to impede on the constitutional right of providers to mount a meaningful defense to criminal charges, and the wishes of insurance companies not to pay for liens they believe are inappropriate, according to the latest amended complaint challenging the legislation passed in 2016.
As such, plaintiffs in Vanguard Medical Management Billing et al. v. Christine Baker et al. said there is no rational basis for the lien stay and the statute is facially unconstitutional. Alternatively, they argue in a second amended complaint filed Thu...
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