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22-11A-10
Section 22-11A-10 State Board of Health to investigate reported cases of tuberculosis; voluntary
treatment; probate court may order compulsory treatment and quarantine; cost of treatment;
exercise of religious freedom. Whenever the State Board of Health or its authorized representative
shall discover, as a result of its own investigation or as a result of any report required
by this article, that any person may be afflicted with tuberculosis, the State Board of Health,
through its authorized representative, shall investigate or further investigate the circumstances
and, if after investigation, the representative of the State Board of Health is of the opinion
that an active case of tuberculosis is found, he shall encourage the person infected to take
voluntary treatment to meet the minimum requirements prescribed by the State Board of Health.
If such afflicted person refuses voluntary treatment, than the state board of health, through
its authorized representative, may petition the...
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7-9A-408
Section 7-9A-408 Restrictions on assignment of promissory notes, health-care-insurance receivables,
and certain general intangibles ineffective. (a) Term restricting assignment generally ineffective.
Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a term in a promissory note or in an agreement
between an account debtor and a debtor which relates to a health-care-insurance receivable
or a general intangible, including a contract, permit, license, or franchise, and which term
prohibits, restricts, or requires the consent of the person obligated on the promissory note
or the account debtor to, the assignment or transfer of, or creation, attachment, or perfection
of a security interest in, the promissory note, health-care-insurance receivable, or general
intangible, is ineffective to the extent that the term: (1) would impair the creation, attachment,
or perfection of a security interest; or (2) provides that the assignment or transfer or the
creation, attachment, or perfection of the...
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22-4-11
Section 22-4-11 Preparation, adoption, etc., of preliminary state health plan generally; provision
in plan for visual care. The State Board of Health, with the advice and consultation of the
Statewide Health Coordinating Council, is hereby authorized and empowered to prepare, review
and revise as necessary a preliminary state health plan which shall be made up of the health
systems plans of the health systems agencies within the state. The state agency may make revisions
of the health systems plans to achieve appropriate coordination or to deal more effectively
with statewide health needs. The preliminary state health plan shall be submitted to the statewide
health coordinating council for approval or disapproval and for its use in developing the
State Health Plan. The State Board of Health is authorized to confer with any or all other
persons, organizations or governmental agencies that have an interest in public health problems
and needs. Any portion of the State Health Plan that...
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22-4-13
Section 22-4-13 Preparation, review, and revision of State Medical Facilities Plan. Upon the
adoption of federal regulations pursuant to Title XVI of the Public Health Service Act, the
State Board of Health is hereby authorized and required to prepare, review and revise, at
least annually, with such interim revisions as may become necessary, a Medical Facilities
Plan, which shall include all health care facilities defined in Section 22-4-2, shall divide
the State of Alabama into health service areas and, based on population and health facility
utilization statistics and such other criteria as the State Board of Health may direct, set
forth the need for health care facilities in such numbers and locations that all citizens
of the state shall have access to an integrated and interrelated system of health care. The
State Medical Facilities Plan shall consider the medical facilities plans of the health systems
agencies and shall be submitted to the Statewide Health Coordinating Council for...
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6-5-548
Section 6-5-548 Burden of proof; reasonable care as similarly situated health care provider;
no evidence admitted of medical liability insurance. (a) In any action for injury or damages
or wrongful death, whether in contract or in tort, against a health care provider for breach
of the standard of care, the plaintiff shall have the burden of proving by substantial evidence
that the health care provider failed to exercise such reasonable care, skill, and diligence
as other similarly situated health care providers in the same general line of practice ordinarily
have and exercise in a like case. (b) Notwithstanding any provision of the Alabama Rules of
Evidence to the contrary, if the health care provider whose breach of the standard of care
is claimed to have created the cause of action is not certified by an appropriate American
board as being a specialist, is not trained and experienced in a medical specialty, or does
not hold himself or herself out as a specialist, a "similarly...
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22-21-41
Section 22-21-41 Duties of State Board of Health. When the State Board of Health receives submittals
of plans, drawings, and specifications for the construction, addition to, or alteration of
health care facilities for the purposes of review and approval, the State Board of Health
shall make reviews of submitted plans, drawings, and specifications and inspections or investigations
of the construction as it deems necessary. In addition, the State Board of Health shall make
a final inspection of the submitted project at the appropriate time. The State Board of Health
shall prescribe by rule the procedure for a licensee, applicant, or submitter to pay fees
required by this article and to submit plans, drawings, and specifications to the State Board
of Health for preliminary review or inspection and approval or recommendation with respect
to compliance with rules of the State Board of Health. In exchange for fees included in the
fee schedule provided herein, the State Board of Health shall...
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22-6-30
Section 22-6-30 Fund established; purpose. There is hereby established the Alabama Health Care
Trust Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of further providing for the operation of
the Medicaid Program and the maintenance and expansion of medical services available thereunder.
This fund shall consist of revenues received from certain taxes levied on providers of medical
services. (Acts 1991, No. 91-125, p. 152, §1.)...
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27-21A-7
Section 27-21A-7 Evidence of coverage and charges for health care services. (a)(1) Every enrollee
residing in this state is entitled to an evidence of coverage. If the enrollee obtains such
coverage through an insurance policy or a contract issued by a health care service plan, the
insurer or the health care service plan shall issue the evidence of coverage. Otherwise, the
health maintenance organization shall issue the evidence of coverage. (2) No evidence of coverage,
or amendment thereto, shall be issued or delivered to any person in this state until a copy
of the basic form of the evidence of coverage, or amendment thereto, has been filed with the
commissioner and the State Health Officer, and approved by the commissioner. (3) An evidence
of coverage shall contain: a. No provisions or statements which encourage misrepresentation,
or which are untrue, misleading, or deceptive as defined in subsection (a) of Section 27-21A-13;
and b. A clear and concise statement, if a contract, or a...
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22-21-42
Section 22-21-42 Review and final inspection. The State Board of Health shall send written
review comments to the project architect within 60 calendar days for projects costing less
than fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), or within 120 calendar days on projects costing
over fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), of the State Board of Health's receipt of each
submittal. If the review is not timely made, the fee as established by Section 22-21-44 and
due at drawing approval shall be waived. The State Board of Health shall perform the final
inspection within 30 calendar days of the receipt of a written request for inspection from
the project architect or by the date requested by the project architect, whichever shall be
later. If the final inspection is not timely made, the remainder of the fee shall be waived.
(Act 2000-686, p. 1393, §3.)...
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22-21-46
Section 22-21-46 Plan Review Fund. There is established a separate special revenue trust fund
in the State Treasury to be known as the Department of Public Health Plan Review Fund. All
receipts received by the State Board of Health or the Department of Public Health for whatever
purpose pursuant to this article shall be deposited in this fund. The receipts shall be disbursed
only by warrant of the state Comptroller upon the State Treasury, upon itemized vouchers approved
by the State Health Officer or his or her designee; provided that no funds shall be withdrawn
or expended except as budgeted and allotted according to the provisions of Sections 41-4-80
to 41-4-96, inclusive, and only in amounts as stipulated in the general appropriations act
or other appropriation acts. (Act 2000-686, p. 1393, §7.)...
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