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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>58036</law_id><section_number>8.01-66.7</section_number><catch_line>Hearing and disposal of claim of unreasonableness</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>8.01-66.8</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.01">Civil Remedies and Procedure</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="3">Actions</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="7.1">Lien for Hospital, Medical and Nursing Services</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>If the injured <span class="dictionary">person</span> questions the reasonableness of the charges made by a hospital, nurse, physician, or emergency medical services agency that provided emergency medical services or emergency medical services vehicle transportation claiming a <span class="dictionary">lien</span> pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Lien against person whose negligence causes injury" href="/8.01-66.2/">8.01-66.2</a>, the injured <span class="dictionary">person</span> or the hospital, physician, nurse, or emergency medical services agency that provided emergency medical services or emergency medical services vehicle transportation may file, in the <span class="dictionary">court</span> that would have <span class="dictionary">jurisdiction</span> of such claim if such claim were asserted against the injured <span class="dictionary">person</span> by such hospital, physician, nurse, or emergency medical services agency that provided emergency medical services or emergency medical services vehicle transportation, a <span class="dictionary">petition</span> setting forth the <span class="dictionary">facts</span>. The <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall hear and dispose of the matter in a summary way after five days&#x2019; notice to the other <span class="dictionary">party in interest</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 32-145; 1979, c. 722; 2003, c. 455; 2015, cc. 502, 503.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
