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Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-22-101 Lien created — Application — Priority
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(a) Every person, firm, association, corporation, institution, or any governmental unit, including the state of Tennessee, any county or municipalities operating and maintaining a hospital in this state, shall have a lien for all reasonable and necessary charges for hospital care…
Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-22-102 Perfecting lien — Filing and notice — Contesting — Effect of settlement or payment
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(a) In order to perfect such lien, the agent or operator of the hospital, before or within one hundred twenty (120) days after any such person shall have been discharged therefrom, shall file in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the hospital is l…
Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-22-103 Duties of circuit court clerk — Hospital lien book — Fee
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(a) The clerk of the circuit court shall endorse on such claim the date and hour of filing and at the expense of the county shall provide a hospital lien book with proper index in which the clerk shall enter the date and hour of such filing, the name and address of the hospital, …
Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-22-104 Impairment of lien — Damages
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(a) No release or satisfaction or any action, suit, claim, counterclaim, demand, judgment, settlement or settlement agreement, or any of them, shall be valid or effectual as against such lien unless the lienholder shall join therein or execute a release of the lien. (b) (1) Any a…