HB3206 Summary

• Caps total health care services liens, including insurer reimbursement claims, at 40% of verdict, judgment, settlement, or award (changed from previous language that excluded insurer claims from the cap).

• Allows petitions to adjudicate lien rights to be served by personal service, substitute service, or registered or certified mail.

• Extends the Health Care Services Lien Act to apply to all insurers and their reimbursement claims and rights.

• Requires health care providers to submit charges to an injured person's insurer if the patient provides insurance information; failure to do so voids the provider's lien and bars collection actions against the patient, with the lien limited to 66% of what the insurer would have paid.

• Provides that liens are diminished proportionately when an injured person's recovery is reduced by comparative fault or uncollectability, and lienholders must bear a pro-rata share of attorney's fees and litigation expenses.