State: Claimants Can Challenge Stay, Not Whether Individual Liens Are Tainted

California’s attorney general said in recent court filings that plaintiffs challenging the constitutionality of the automatic stay on liens filed by, or on behalf of, criminally charged providers are conflating two important questions. “The first is whether (Labor Code) Section 4615 gives a medical provider charged with fraud, or any entity filing a lien ‘on behalf of’ that provider, the opportunity to argue that some liens should not be stayed because they do not relate to the charged criminal activity. The answer is no — if the provisions of the statute ap...