Baker v. Iowa Methodist Medical Center

CARTER, Justice.

Iowa Methodist Medical Center (Iowa Methodist), which claims to have a lien on a bodily injury damage recovery, appeals from the district court’s judgment confirming the lien as to only part of the patient’s recovery. The injured patient who obtained medical services from Iowa Methodist is the plaintiff, Brad Baker. The district court confirmed Iowa Methodist’s hospital lien on the damages Baker recovered from the liability insurer of the tortfeasor who injured him. It refused, however, to confirm a hospital lien on the recovery Baker obtained from his own underinsured…