Arkansas Code Annotated
Ark. Code Ann. § 18-46-101 (2026)
Title
✓ current as of May 2026
This chapter may be cited as the Medical, Nursing, Hospital, and Ambulance Service Lien Act.
History. Acts 1933, No. 130, § 16; Pope's Dig., § 10833; A.S.A. 1947, § 51-815; Acts 1993, No. 271, § 1.
Case Notes
Cited: Fort Smith Serv. Fin. Corp. v. Parrish, 302 Ark. 299, 789 S.W.2d 723 (1990); Provident Life & Accident Ins. Co. v. Linthicum, 743 F. Supp. 662 (W.D. Ark 1990).
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7
cases, 1990–2019 · leading case: Fort Smith Serv. Fin. Corp. v. Parrish, 789 S.W.2d 723 (Ark. 1990).
Fort Smith Serv. Fin. Corp. v. Parrish, 789 S.W.2d 723 (Ark. 1990). “The Medical, Nursing and Hospital Lien Act is codified at Ark. Code Ann. §§ 18-46-101 to 117 (1987).”
Stuttgart Reg'l Med. Ctr. v. Cox, 33 S.W.3d 142 (Ark. 2000). “On April 2, 1998, the Hospital filed a notice of medical lien with the Arkansas County Clerk pursuant to the Medical Nursing Hospital and Ambulance Service Lien Act (Medical Lien Act), Ark. Code Ann. §§ 18-46-101 through 18-46-117 (Supp.”
Shelby Cnty. Health Care Corp. v. S. Farm Bureau Cas. Ins., 798 F.3d 686 (8th Cir. 2015). “The probate court found that no medical liens had been filed against Smiley’s estate in Monroe County and that the Med’s hospital lien was void and’ unenforceable in Arkansas as the Med did not follow or *688 attempt to follow the requirements of the Arkansas Medical, Nursing,…”
Provident Life & Accident Ins. v. Linthicum, 743 F. Supp. 662 (W.D. Ark. 1990). “Secondly, even if plaintiff had somehow expressly or impliedly agreed that Arkansas’ Medical, Nursing, and Hospital Lien Act, Ark. Code Ann. § 18-46-101 et seq. applied to or governed plaintiff’s obligations, such an agreement is of no effect when the subject matter of the…”
Garrison v. RevClaims, LLC, 247 F. Supp. 3d 987 (E.D. Ark. 2017). “Ark. Code Ann. § 18-46-101 . This Act provides for “statutory” liens similar to materialmen’s or mechanic’s liens.”
In Re Miller, 444 B.R. 177 (Bankr. E.D. Ark. 2011). “provider shall serve on the patient a written notice of his or her claim of lien and shall serve a copy of that notice on the tortfeasor or on the insurer.”
Whitley v. Baptist Health (E.D. Ark. 2019). “§§ 18-46-101 et seq., creates a right in the complying healthcare provider to collect for its services through a lien on “any claim, right of action, and money to which the patient is entitled because of that injury.”
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