VIA CHRISTI REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER v. REED

No. 101,690.

314 P.3d 852 (2013)

VIA CHRISTI REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, INC., Appellee, v. Ivan M. REED, Appellant, and Patterson Gott & Burk, L.C., as successor entity of Patterson Gott & Graybill, L.C., Defendant.

Supreme Court of Kansas.

December 20, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

N. Russell Hazlewood , of Graybill & Hazlewood, L.L.C., of Wichita, argued the cause, and Jacob S. Graybill , of the same firm, was with him on the briefs for appellant Ivan M. Reed.

Jay F. Fowler , of Foulston Siefkin LLP, of Wichita, argued the cause, and Holly A. Dyer and James D. Oliver , of the same firm, were with him on the briefs for appellee Via Christi Regional Medical Center, Inc.


The opinion of the court was delivered by BEIER, J.:

Ivan Reed received life-saving medical treatment at Via Christi Regional Medical Center, Inc. (Via Christi), after his car collided with a Union Pacific Railroad train. Via Christi filed a hospital lien under K.S.A. 65-406 et seq. to collect on its bill for the services provided Reed. The lien initially purported to encumber $84,744.11 of Reed's $540,000 settlement with Union Pacific; Via Christi eventually...

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