NC General Statutes

N.C. Gen. Stat. § 44-51 (2026)

Disputed claims to be settled before payments

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(a) Whenever the sum or amount or amounts demanded for medical services or hospital fees shall be in dispute, nothing in this Article shall have any effect of compelling payment thereof until the claim is fully established and determined, in the manner provided by law: Provided, however, that when any such sums are in dispute the amount of the lien shall in no case exceed the amount of the bills in dispute.

(b) This section shall not apply to amounts owed to the State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees for past-due account receivables related to claims payments. (1935, c. 121, s. 3; 1943, c. 543; 2018-52, s. 5(d).)

Article 9A.

Liens for Ambulance Service.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1890–1897 · leading case: Wilson v. . Leary, 26 S.E. 630 (N.C. 1897).

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Wilson v. . Leary, 26 S.E. 630 (N.C. 1897). “The subject is thoroughly discussed by Gray on Perpetuities, Sections 44-51, and he demonstrates that my Lord Coke’s doctrine .”

Bain v. Richmond & Danville R.R., 11 S.E. 311 (N.C. 1890). “It had reference to and embraced property of cor *368 porations, whether resident or not, whose property was situated, had a situs, in this State, and was thus subject to be taxed. But the property in question was not, in a legal sense,located — situated—in this State; it had no…”

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