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22-18-50
Section 22-18-50 Enactment and text of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure
Interstate Compact. The Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact
is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein
in form substantially as follows: SECTION 1. PURPOSE In order to protect the public
through verification of competency and ensure accountability for patient care related activities
all states license emergency medical services (EMS) personnel, such as emergency medical technicians
(EMTs), advanced EMTs and paramedics. This Compact is intended to facilitate the day to day
movement of EMS personnel across state boundaries in the performance of their EMS duties as
assigned by an appropriate authority and authorize state EMS offices to afford immediate legal
recognition to EMS personnel licensed in a member state. This Compact recognizes that states
have a vested interest in protecting the public's health and safety...
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16-25A-42
Section 16-25A-42 Board creation. (a) There is hereby created the Public Education Flexible
Employees Benefit Board, which shall consist of the chair and vice chair of the Public Education
Employees' Health Insurance Board and three members of the Public Education Employees' Health
Insurance Board, one of whom shall be the Director of Finance. Two members of the Public Education
Employees' Health Insurance Board shall be elected from the Public Education Employees' Health
Insurance Board's membership as members of the Public Education Flexible Employees' Benefit
Board. The individuals presently holding the offices shall constitute the initial membership
of the board, and their successors in office, by virtue of assuming such office, shall succeed
to membership on the board. The Director of Finance may designate a person to attend the meetings
from time to time and to vote in his or her absence. (b) The board shall elect one of its
members as chair of the board and another as vice chair...
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16-25A-2
Section 16-25A-2 Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Board; membership, compensation,
oath of office, officers, staff, etc. (a) The Public Education Employees' Health Insurance
Board shall consist of the members of the Board of Control of the Teachers' Retirement System
of Alabama; (b) Board members shall serve without compensation for their services as board
members, but shall be reimbursed from the fund established in subsection (f) of Section
16-25A-8 for all necessary expenses that they may incur through service on the board; (c)
Each board member shall, within 10 days after his appointment or election to the Board of
Control of the Teachers' Retirement System, take an oath of office that, so far as it devolves
on him, he will diligently and honestly administer the affairs of the board herein established,
and that he will not knowingly violate, or willingly permit to be violated, any of the provisions
of law applicable to the Public Employees' Health Insurance Plan. Such...
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27-56-5
Section 27-56-5 Third-party payment. (a) No insurance policy, plan, or contract providing
for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses that provides coverage
for eye care services shall be issued or renewed after August 1, 2001, unless such insurance
policy, plan, or contract does the following: (1) Provides a covered person direct access
to any eye care provider participating in, or otherwise eligible to provide services under,
the policy, plan, or contract for all eye care services covered under the policy, plan, or
contract, without any referral or preapproval requirement, including, but not limited to,
the following services, if covered: a. Medical treatment of glaucoma. b. Postoperative eye
care. (2) Ensures that any list of medical or health care providers participating in, or otherwise
eligible to provide services under, the policy, plan, or contract includes eye care providers
to the same extent that such list includes other medical or health care...
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27-56-3
Section 27-56-3 Payment for services. An insurance policy, plan, or contract providing
for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses shall include a provision
for the payment to a licensed optometrist for each service which falls within the scope of
the optometrist's license, if the policy, plan, or contract pays for the same service when
provided by any other provider for such services. (Act 2001-477, p. 640, §3.)...
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36-29-14
Section 36-29-14 Health insurance coverage under State Employees' Insurance Board; operation
of board. (a) Any agency of the state, or any governmental entity, body, or subdivision thereto,
any county, any municipality, any municipal foundation, any fire or water district, authority,
or cooperative, any regional planning and development commission established pursuant to Sections
11-85-50 through 11-85-73, that is not and was not for the 12 months immediately preceding
the date of application to participate in any plan created pursuant to the provisions of this
article a member of an existing government sponsored health insurance program, formed under
the provisions of Section 11-26-2, the Association of County Commissions of Alabama
or the Alabama League of Municipalities, the Alabama Retired State Employees' Association,
the Alabama State Employees Credit Union, Easter Seals Alabama, Alabama State University,
the Alabama Rural Water Association, Rainbow Omega, Incorporated, The Arc...
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27-1-10
Section 27-1-10 Payment for health services of chiropractor; insured to have exclusive
right to select practitioner of healing arts. Any contract or policy of insurance or any plan
or agreement for health services providing for reimbursement or payment for health services
performed by a medical doctor or physician or upon the certification of a medical doctor,
surgeon, osteopath or physician, shall also reimburse or pay for such health services performed
by a doctor of chiropractic or upon his certificate; provided, that the health services performed
by the doctor of chiropractic are within the scope of his license and he is duly licensed
by the State of Alabama. The insured or such other person entitled to benefits under such
contract or policy of insurance or plan or agreement for health services shall have the exclusive
right to choose or select any practitioner or member of the healing arts of Alabama to perform
such services, notwithstanding any provisions of such contract or...
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27-51-1
Section 27-51-1 Payment for services of licensed physician assistant. (a) An insurance
policy or contract providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses
shall include a provision for the payment to a supervising physician for necessary medical
or surgical services that are provided by a licensed physician assistant practicing under
the supervision of the physician, and pursuant to the rules, regulations, and parameters for
physician assistants, if the policy or contract pays for the same care and treatment provided
by a licensed physician or doctor of osteopathy. (b) An insurance policy or contract subject
to this section shall not impose a practice or supervision restriction which is inconsistent
with or more restrictive than provided by law. (c) This section shall apply to services
provided under a policy or contract delivered, continued, or renewed in this state on or after
August 1, 1997, and to any existing policy or contract, on the policy's or...
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27-19A-4
Section 27-19A-4 Required provisions. Any health insurance policy or employee benefit
plan which is delivered, renewed, issued for delivery, or otherwise contracted for in this
state shall, to the extent that it provides benefits for dental care expenses: (1) Disclose,
if applicable, that the benefit offered is limited to the least costly treatment; (2) Define
and explain the standard upon which the payment of benefits or reimbursement for the cost
of dental care services is based, such as "usual and customary," "reasonable
and customary," "usual, customary, and reasonable," fees or words of similar
import or specify in dollars and cents the amount of the payment or reimbursement for dental
care services to be provided. Said payment or reimbursement for a noncontracting provider
dentist shall be the same as the payment or reimbursement for a contracting provider dentist;
provided, however, that the health insurance policy or the employee benefit plan shall not
be required to make...
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34-19-21
Section 34-19-21 Coverage or reimbursement for services not required. Nothing contained
in this chapter shall be construed to create a requirement that any health benefit plan, group
insurance plan, policy, or contract for health care services that covers hospital, medical,
or surgical expenses, health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations,
medical service organizations, physician-hospital organizations, or any other person, firm,
corporation, joint venture, or other similar business entity that pays for, purchases, or
furnishes group health care services to patients, insureds, or beneficiaries in this state,
including entities created pursuant to Article 6, commencing with Section 10A-20-6.01,
of Chapter 20, Title 10A, provide coverage or reimbursement for the services described or
authorized in this chapter. (Act 2017-383, §4.)...
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