85 S.W.3d 83, 89 (Mo.App. W.D.2002) (citing Jackson v. Engert, 453 S.W.2d 615, 617 (Mo.App.1970)). Secondly, even if section 430.230 gives St. Luke’s the right to a lien on such claims, its right, like any other legal right, can be modified or waived by contract. See Coffer v. Wasson-Hunt, 281 S.W.3d 308, 312 (Mo. banc 2009) (“As with any other statutory right, an officer can waive his or her right to appear before the board.”) (internal citations omitted). Treating Ms. Morgan’s well-pleaded facts as admitted, there is a contract between St. Luke’s and her health insurance provider that operates to compel the participation of St. Luke’s in accepting discounted payments from Ms. Morgan’s health insurance provider that serve to extingui os., 268 Neb. 642, 686 N.W.2d 572, 577, 579 (2004) (<HOLDING>); Parnell v. Adventist Health System/West, 35
holding that where hospital used balance billing its lien was unenforceable because the hospital had been paid in full for the services it provided to patient and there was consequently no debt to secure by the existence of the lien holding that a hospital may not assert a statutory lien in an amount exceeding the amount it agreed to accept from the patients insurer holding that the lien bond releases the property from the lien but the lien is then secured by the bond holding that where hospital used balance billing that since the hospital had already received payments from the patient and his health insurer and had agreed to accept that amount as payment in full for its services there was no longer any amount owing to the hospital and thus it could not assert a statutory hospital lien for the difference between its charges and the amount received in light of the negotiated network agreements holding that under nebraskas physicians lien statute a physicians lien could not exceed the amount the health care provider agreed to accept for the services rendered to a patient even if the usual and customary charge for such services is greater than that sum because the statute extends such lien only to the amount due or debt of the patient to the hospital