Official Code of Georgia Annotated :O.C.G.A. § 44-14-470(b) provides as follows:

Any person, firm, hospital authority, or corporation operating a hospital, nursing home, or physician practice, or providing traumatic burn care medical practice in this state, shall have a lien for the reasonable charges for hospital, nursing home, physician practice, or traumatic burn care medical practice care and treatment of an injured person, which lien shall be upon any and all causes of action accruing to the person to whom the care was furnished or to the legal representative of such person on account of injuries giving rise to the causes of action and which necessitated the hospital, nursing home, physician practice, or provider of traumatic burn care medical practice care, subject, however, to any attorney's lien. The lien provided for in this subsection is only a lien against such causes of action and shall not be a lien against such injured person, such legal representative, or any other property or assets of such person and shall not be evidence of such person' s failure to pay a debt.

O.C.G.A. § 44-14-471(a)(1) provides that fifteen days prior to the filing of the lien written notice is to be sent to the patient, the person's claim by the injured person to be responsible for the damages. Such notice is to be sent to all such persons by first class and certified mail or statutory overnight delivery, return receipt requested.

Also, O.C.G.A. § 44-14-471(a)(2)(A) provides that if the statement is filed by a hospital, nursing home, or provider of traumatic burn care medical practice, the statement shall be filed within seventy-five days after the person has been discharged from the facility or (B) if the statement is filed by a physician practice, then the statement shall be filed within ninety days after the person first sought treatment from the physician practice for the injury.

As a practical matter, liens filed by physicians in this area of Georgia are not common. However, hospitals are on " automatic pilot". Any incident involving an automobile accident is routinely filed by all of the local hospitals. Beware of "lien affidavits." False swearing is a crime.