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22-5A-3
Section 22-5A-3 Duties of State Ombudsman and department. The State Ombudsman and the department
are hereby authorized to investigate complaints concerning health care, domiciliary and residential
care facilities. The State Ombudsman shall promote the well-being and quality of life of long-term
residential health care recipients and encourage the development of community ombudsman activities
at the local level. After appropriate training and approval by the department, community ombudsmen
shall be certified by the department and shall have the powers and responsibilities set forth
in Sections 22-5A-4 and 22-5A-6, subject to the procedures established by the State Ombudsman
pursuant to Section 22-5A-5. The State Ombudsman shall submit to the department an annual
written report documenting the kinds of complaints and problems reported so that the department
can make recommendations concerning needed policy, regulatory, and legislative changes. (Acts
1985, No. 85-657, p. 1029, ยง3.)...
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22-6-233
Section 22-6-233 Legislative findings; certification of collaborators; powers of Medicaid Agency;
state action immunity. (a) The Legislature declares that collaboration among public payers,
private health carriers, third party purchasers, and providers to identify appropriate service
delivery systems and reimbursement methods in order to align incentives in support of integrated
and coordinated health care delivery is in the best interest of the public. Collaboration
pursuant to this article is to provide quality health care at the lowest possible cost to
Alabama citizens who are Medicaid eligible. The Legislature, therefore, declares that this
health care delivery system affirmatively contemplates the foreseeable displacement of competition,
such that any anti-competitive effect may be attributed to the state's policy to displace
competition in the delivery of a coordinated system of health care for the public benefit.
In furtherance of this goal, the Legislature declares its intent...
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34-23-92.1
Section 34-23-92.1 Legislative findings; rulemaking authority; construction of section. (a)
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The power to make rules regulating
the practice of pharmacy includes the power to prohibit unlicensed persons from practicing
pharmacy and the power to regulate how licensed persons practice pharmacy. (2) A primary goal
of the provision of health care is to prioritize patient safety and wellness. (3) The board
is in the best position to determine the practice of pharmacy that prioritizes patient safety
and wellness. (4) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to immunize
the Board of Pharmacy and its members from liability under state and federal anti-trust laws
for the adoption of a rule that prioritizes patient safety and wellness but may be anti-competitive
when the effect on public safety and wellness is clearly demonstrated and documented by the
Board of Pharmacy. (b) Subject to subsection (c), rules adopted...
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34-24-125
Section 34-24-125 Chiropractic agreements. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following
words shall have the following meanings: (1) CHIROPRACTOR. A person licensed to practice chiropractic
in this state. (2) CHIROPRACTIC AGREEMENT or AGREEMENT. A contract between a chiropractor
and a patient or his or her legal representative in which the chiropractor or the chiropractor's
chiropractic practice agrees to provide chiropractic services to the patient for an agreed
upon fee and period of time. (3) CHIROPRACTIC PRACTICE. A chiropractor or a chiropractic practice
of a chiropractor that charges a periodic fee for chiropractic services and which does not
bill a third party any additional fee for services for patients covered under a chiropractic
agreement. The per visit charge of the practice shall be less than the monthly equivalent
of the periodic fee. (b) A chiropractic agreement is not insurance, may not be deemed an insurance
arrangement, and is not subject to state insurance...
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34-25A-4
Section 34-25A-4 Referral and consultation limits. (a) A licensed prosthetist, licensed orthotist,
or licensed prosthetist/orthotist may provide services utilizing new prostheses or orthoses
for which he or she is licensed and only under a written order from an authorized health care
practitioner. A consultation with and periodic review by an authorized health care practitioner
is not required for the evaluation, repair, adjusting, or servicing of a prosthesis by a licensed
prosthetist, or licensed prosthetist/orthotist and for the evaluation, repair, adjusting,
or servicing of an orthosis by a licensed orthotist, or licensed prosthetist/orthotist; nor
is an order from an authorized health care practitioner required for maintenance or replacement
of an orthosis or prosthesis to the level of its original prescription for an indefinite period
of time if the original order remains appropriate for the patient's medical needs. (b) Prosthetists
and orthotists must refer persons receiving...
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34-2A-2
Section 34-2A-2 License required; permission to supervise multiple facilities. (a) All administrators
of assisted living facilities or specialty care assisted living facilities as recorded in
the records of the State Department of Public Health shall be issued a provisional license,
as defined herein, upon the effective date of this act. On and after September 1, 2003, no
assisted living facility in the state may operate unless it is under the supervision of an
administrator who holds a currently valid assisted living administrator's license, or new
initial provisional license, issued by the board. No person shall practice or offer to practice
assisted living administration in this state or use any title, sign, card, or device to indicate
that he or she is an assisted living administrator unless the person shall have been duly
licensed as an assisted living administrator or as a provisional assisted living administrator
in this state. In the event an assisted living administrator dies,...
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20-3-2
Section 20-3-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY. An institution or facility licensed as an assisted
living facility under regulations of the State Board of Health. (2) CHARITABLE CLINIC. The
term includes an established free medical clinic as defined in subdivision (1) of Section
6-5-662 and any community health center provided for under the federal Public Health Service
Law. (3) CHARITABLE PATIENT. For purposes of this chapter, the term shall not include patients
who are eligible to receive drugs under the Alabama Medicaid Program or under any other prescription
drug program funded in whole or in part by the state. (4) DRUGS. All medicinal substances
and preparations recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary, or
any revision thereof, and all substances and preparations intended for external and internal
use in the cure, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of...
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22-11C-7
Section 22-11C-7 Confidentiality; disclosure of information. (a) All information reported pursuant
to this chapter shall be confidential and privileged. (b) The State Health Officer shall take
strict measures to ensure that all identifying information is kept confidential, except as
otherwise provided in this chapter. (c) Head and spinal cord injury information may be provided
to researchers or research institutions, or both, in connection with head and/or spinal cord
injury morbidity and mortality studies upon appropriate review by the State Health Officer.
All identifying information regarding an individual patient, health care provider, or health
care facility contained in records of interviews, written reports, and statements procured
by the State Health Officer or by any other person, agency, or organization acting jointly
with the State Health Officer in connection with these studies shall be confidential and privileged
and shall be used solely for the purposes of the study....
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22-13-33
Section 22-13-33 Information to be confidential. (a) All information reported pursuant to this
article shall be confidential and privileged. (b) The State Health Officer shall take strict
measures to ensure that all identifying information is kept confidential, except as otherwise
provided in this article. (c) Cancer or benign brain-related tumor information may be provided
to researchers or research institutions, or both, in connection with cancer or benign brain-related
tumor morbidity and mortality studies upon appropriate review by the State Health Officer.
All identifying information regarding an individual patient, health care provider, or health
care facility contained in records of interviews, written reports, and statements procured
by the State Health Officer or by any other person, agency, or organization acting jointly
with the State Health Officer in connection with these studies shall be confidential and privileged
and shall be used solely for the purposes of the study....
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22-21-265.3
Section 22-21-265.3 Certificates of need - All-digital, automated hospital exempt from review
process. The Legislature finds and determines that the well-being and health of the citizens
of the State of Alabama will be enhanced by the development and growth of a state of the art
digital, automated hospital using the latest technological advances in healthcare to lower
healthcare costs, reduce human errors, and provide patients with the best medical care available,
and that it is in the best interest of the state to induce the location of one all-digital,
automated hospital, meeting the requirements of a digital hospital as provided in subsection
(f) of Section 22-21-265, in a county in which is located an accredited medical school and
teaching facility and not less than 3,000 licensed general hospital beds, in order to set
new standards for quality, efficiency, and cost-effective delivery of healthcare services,
and to promote these purposes by exempting from the certificate of need...
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