Health Care Liens

[Editor’s Note: If you are using your own lien form language or language from an outside source, please see the Important Note below. Your lien must have the required elements to be enforceable.]

A lien is a legal claim against specific property. A health care lien is a provider’s claim against the monetary settlement or court judgment in an injury case.  The Illinois health care lien law refers to individual health care licensees as “health care professionals” and to facility health care licensees as “health care providers.”  The law allows health care professionals, such as physicians and other health care professionals, and health care providers such as hospitals, to assert liens for service billings against personal injury monies to be paid to the patient by a negligent party.