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Welcome to our website, a new and innovative system designed to help mitigate and reduce the problems of filing timely liens.

You have seen this happen and it is not pretty. A provider renders emergency medical services to a person in need after a terrible accident. Then the victim sues to recover for her medical bills, pain and suffering and other damages. A lawyer asks you for your billings to include in the settlement offer. You cooperate. Settlement day comes and goes and eventually you realize that you have been stiffed on the bill. According to the latest studies of Alaska’s health care delivery system, over 65,000 Alaskans are uninsured. This means that they have not provided or cannot provide for themselves in case of a medical emergency. What happens with their medical bills is called “cost-shifting”; this means that other people will pay for the medical care of these 65,000 people.

For some of these Alaskans and their injuries, a safety net is supposed to provide coverage. Alaska’s hospitals and special nurses were supposed to be paid from the insurance and/or tort systems for their efforts in treating traumatic injuries: car, plane and boating accidents (injuries not covered under worker’s compensation). This system, which “tied” the hospitals' right to recovery to the settlement money to be received by the patient/accident victim, falls under the classification of “liens” in the American legal system.

Initially, there were two problems with the lien system: First, hospitals and nurses were not using this lien system because the law was out of date. Second, physicians and chiropractors did not have the right to record these liens. Legislation, enacted October 1, 1996 addressed both of these problems.