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34-22-101
Section 34-22-101 Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) BOARD. The Alabama Board of Optometry. (2) IMPAIRED or IMPAIRMENT.
The inability of an optometrist to practice optometry with reasonable skill and safety to
patients by reason of illness, inebriation, excessive use of drugs, narcotics, alcohol, chemicals,
or other substances or as a result of any physical or mental condition. (3) IMPAIRED DOCTOR
OF OPTOMETRY TREATMENT PROGRAM. The Alabama Board of Optometry approved or sponsored program
for the detection, intervention, and monitoring of impaired providers. (4) PROFESSIONAL INCOMPETENCE.
The inability or failure of an optometrist to practice his or her profession with reasonable
skill and safety; however, impairment in and of itself shall not give rise to a presumption
of professional incompetence. (5) TREATMENT PROGRAM. A plan of care and rehabilitation services
provided by those organizations and persons authorized...
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40-9-1
Section 40-9-1 Persons and property generally. The following property and persons shall be
exempt from ad valorem taxation and none other: (1) All bonds of the United States and this
state and all county and municipal bonds issued by counties and municipalities in this state,
all property, real and personal, of the United States and this state and of county and municipal
corporations in this state; all cemeteries, all property, real and personal, used exclusively
for religious worship, for schools or for purposes purely charitable; provided, that property,
real or personal, owned by any educational, religious or charitable institution, society or
corporation let for rent or hire or for use for business purposes shall not be exempt from
taxation, notwithstanding that the income from such property shall be used exclusively for
education, religious or charitable purposes; all mortgages, together with the notes, debts
and credits secured thereby on real and personal property situated in...
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22-11D-9
Section 22-11D-9 Statewide Trauma System Fund. (a) The Statewide Trauma System Fund is created.
The department shall distribute funding allocated to the department for the purpose of creating,
administering, maintaining, or enhancing the statewide trauma system. The department may apply
for, receive, and accept gifts and other payments, including property and services, for the
fund from any governmental or other public or private entity or person and may utilize the
fund for activities related to the design, administration, operation, maintenance, or enhancement
of the statewide trauma system. (b) The methodology of distribution of funds and allocation
of funds shall be established by the council and subsequently adopted by the board, pursuant
to the Administrative Procedure Act. Guidelines and parameters for distribution and allocation
of funds is the sole prerogative of the council. Fund allocation to trauma centers shall be
based upon the designated level of trauma care and the...
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22-5A-5
Section 22-5A-5 Procedures for receiving complaints; informing recipients of ombudsman program.
The State Ombudsman shall establish written procedures for receiving complaints involving
long-term residential health care facilities and their employees. The Department of Senior
Services shall provide to health care, domiciliary and residential facilities written information
on the ombudsman program to be distributed to recipients at the time of admission, or rendering
of care and/or treatment at a facility. (Acts 1985, No. 85-657, p. 1029, §5.)...
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27-1-21
Section 27-1-21 Uniformity of limits applied to fulfillment of certain drug prescriptions.
(a) For the purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings:
(1) ENROLLEE. A person enrolled in a health benefit plan. (2) HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN. Any individual
or group plan, policy, or contract for health care services issued, delivered, issued for
delivery, renewed in this state by a health care insurer, health maintenance organization,
accident and sickness insurer, fraternal benefit society, nonprofit hospital service corporation,
nonprofit medical service corporation, health care service plan, or any other person, firm,
corporation, joint venture, or other similar business entity that pays for, purchases, or
furnishes health care services to patients, insureds, or beneficiaries in this state. The
term includes, but is not limited to, entities created pursuant to Article 6 of Chapter 4
of Title 10. The term shall not include any collective bargaining agreement...
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27-19-105
Section 27-19-105 Regulations for long-term care policies; outline of coverage, policy summary,
and monthly report. (a) The commissioner may adopt regulations that include standards for
full and fair disclosure setting forth the manner, content, and required disclosures for the
sale of long-term care insurance policies, terms of renewability, initial and subsequent conditions
of eligibility, nonduplication of coverage provisions, coverage of dependents, preexisting
conditions, termination of insurance, continuation or conversion, probationary periods, limitations,
exceptions, reductions, elimination periods, requirements for replacement, recurrent conditions,
and definitions of terms. Regulations under this subsection should recognize the developing
and unique nature of long-term care insurance and the distinction between group and individual
long-term insurance policies. (b) No long-term care insurance policy may do any of the following:
(1) Be cancelled, nonrenewed, or otherwise...
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35-11-372
Section 35-11-372 Release or satisfaction. (a) During the period of time allowed by Section
35-11-371 for perfecting the lien, including that period of time during which the hospital
is awaiting payment or denial by the patient's health care payor, and also after the lien
provided for by this division has been perfected by any lienholder entitled thereto, no release
or satisfaction of any action, claim, counterclaim, demand, judgment, settlement, or settlement
agreement, or of any of them, shall be valid or effectual as against the lien unless the lienholder
shall join therein or execute a release of the lien. (b) Any acceptance of a release or satisfaction
of any action, claim, counterclaim, demand, or judgment and any settlement of any of the foregoing
in the absence of a release or satisfaction of the lien referred to in this division shall
prima facie constitute an impairment of the lien, and the lienholder shall be entitled to
a civil action for damages on account of the...
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36-29-4
Section 36-29-4 Establishment and provisions of health insurance plan; rules and regulations.
The board is hereby empowered and authorized to establish a fully insured or self-insured
health insurance plan for employees and retirees of the State of Alabama and to adopt and
promulgate rules and regulations for the administration of such plan, subject to such limitations
as may be contained in this chapter. Such plan may provide for group hospitalization, surgical,
and medical insurance against the financial costs of hospitalization, surgical, and medical
treatment and care and may also include, among other things, prescribed drugs, medicines,
prosthetic appliances, hospital inpatient and outpatient service benefits, and medical expenses
indemnity benefits, including major medical benefits or such other coverage or benefits as
may be deemed appropriate and desirable by the board. (Acts 1965, No. 833, p. 1564, §3; Act
2004-647, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 17, §1.)...
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12-15-130
Section 12-15-130 Ordering, conduct, and certification of findings of mental and physical examinations
of children; minors or children believed to be individuals with a mental illness or an intellectual
disability; treatment or care for children; payment; authority to order emergency medical
care for children. (a) Where there are indications that a child may be physically ill, a child
with mental illness or an intellectual disability, or an evaluation of a child is needed to
help determine issues of competency to understand judicial proceedings, mental state at the
time of the offense, or the ability of the child to assist his or her attorney, the juvenile
court, on its own motion or motion by the prosecutor, or that of the child's attorney or guardian
ad litem for the child, may order the child to be examined at a suitable place by a physician,
psychiatrist, psychologist, or other qualified examiner, under the supervision of a physician,
psychiatrist, or psychologist who shall certify...
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12-21-5
Section 12-21-5 Copy of hospital records - Admissibility. When the original would be admissible
in any case or proceeding in a court in the state, a certified copy of the hospital records
of any hospital organized or operated under or pursuant to the laws of Alabama, including
records of admission, medical, hospital, occupational, disease, injury and disability histories,
temperature and other charts, X rays and written interpretations thereof, pictures, photographs,
files, written orders, directions, findings and reports and interpretations of physicians,
doctors, surgeons, pathologists, radiologists, specialists, dentists, technicians and nurses,
as well as of all employees of such hospital, forming a part of such hospital records as to
the health, condition, state, injuries, sickness, disease, mental, physical and nervous disorders,
duration and character of disabilities, diagnosis, prognosis, progress, wounds, cuts, contusions,
lacerations, breaks, loss of blood, incisions,...
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