Steward Machine Co. v. Board of Trustees

MOORE, Judge.

After inpatient hospital services had been provided to an injured employee of Steward Machine Company, Inc. (“Steward”), between April 4 and April 16, 2006, at the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham, the Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for its division University of Alabama Hospital (hereinafter referred to as “UAB Hospital”), tendered a bill to Steward for $130,284.09.1 Steward submitted the bill to an entity referred to as Avizent, Steward’s third-party workers’ compensation administrator, for payment.2 After screening the bill, Avizent notified UAB…