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22-21-20
Section 22-21-20 Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) HOSPITALS. General and specialized
hospitals, including ancillary services; independent clinical laboratories; rehabilitation
centers; ambulatory surgical treatment facilities for patients not requiring hospitalization;
end stage renal disease treatment and transplant centers, including free-standing hemodialysis
units; abortion or reproductive health centers; hospices; health maintenance organizations;
and other related health care institutions when such institution is primarily engaged in offering
to the public generally, facilities and services for the diagnosis and/or treatment of injury,
deformity, disease, surgical or obstetrical care. Also included within the term are long term
care facilities such as, but not limited to, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care
facilities, assisted living facilities, and specialty...
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36-29-21
Section 36-29-21 Definitions. When used in this article, the following terms shall have the
following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) BOARD. The Flexible
Employees Benefits Board. (2) EMPLOYEE. A person who is employed by the State of Alabama,
its agencies, departments, or for a county health department, and who receives his compensation
through means of a state warrant drawn upon the State Treasury, or by check drawn by the Alabama
State Port Authority, or from the treasury of the Department of Mental Health, other than
those employees covered by the federal Railroad Retirement Act. Further, for the purposes
of long-term care insurance, this definition covers any person employed by a local government
in the State of Alabama. (3) INTERNAL REVENUE CODE. The Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended. (4) PARTICIPATING EMPLOYEE. An employee who elects to participate in the flexible
benefit plan and meets the requirements set forth in said plan. (5) SALARY...
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38-9A-1
Section 38-9A-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall have
the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (a)
ADULT. An individual 18 years of age or older with a developmental disability. (b) AGENCY.
Any public state agency, including, but not limited to, the Department of Mental Health, Department
of Public Health, and Department of Education. (c) CHILD. An individual under the age of 18
who has a developmental disability or who is at risk for a developmental disability. A child
under the age of six is considered at risk for a developmental disability if the child has
substantial developmental delay or specific congenital or acquired condition that has a high
probability of resulting in a developmental disability if services are not provided. (d) COMMUNITY
COUNCIL. A local council composed of people with a developmental disability and their family
members who supervise the implementation of the program in its...
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22-18-6
Section 22-18-6 Violations; good Samaritan provisions; scope of privilege; control of emergency
scene; penalties. (a) It shall be a Class A misdemeanor for any person, firm, company, corporation,
organization, facility, or agency to do any of the following: (1) Deliberately hinder, obstruct,
or interfere with an officer, inspector, or duly authorized agent of the board while in the
performance of official duties. (2) Deliberately hinder, obstruct, or interfere with any physician,
licensed nurse, licensed EMSP, or emergency personnel exempt from licensure under this article
while that individual is providing emergency care to a third person or while that individual
is assisting at the scene of an emergency, directing traffic at the scene of an emergency,
or managing or helping to manage the scene of an emergency. (3) Violate subsection (c) or
(d). (4) Offer, provide, or perform, without a license or certificate to do so, an emergency
medical service or other function which, under this...
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22-21-29
Section 22-21-29 Inspections. (a) Every hospital licensed under this article shall be open
to inspection to the extent authorized in this section by employees and agents of the State
Board of Health, under rules as shall be promulgated by the board with the advice and consent
of the advisory board. Employees and agents of the board shall also inspect unlicensed and
suspected unlicensed facilities. Nothing in this section shall authorize the board to inspect
quarters therein occupied by members of any religious group or nurses engaged in work in any
hospital or places of refuge for members of religious orders for whom care is provided, but
any inspection shall be limited and confined to the parts and portions of the hospital as
are used for the care and treatment of the patients and the general facilities for their care
and treatment. No hospital shall, by reason of this section, be relieved from any other types
of inspections authorized by law. (b) All inspections undertaken by 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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22-21-271
Section 22-21-271 Certificates of need - Application fees; appropriation of funds; disposition
of fees. (a) Each application for a certificate of need shall be accompanied by a fee of one
percent of the estimated cost of the proposed cost of the new Institutional Health Service,
or a maximum of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) (indexed) per application. Provided, that
the application fee shall be three-fourths of one percent of the estimated cost of the proposed
new Institutional Health Service, or a maximum of eight thousand dollars ($8,000) if the applicant
has had an average daily census comprised of 50 percent or more Medicaid patients within the
last year prior to the filing of the application and a maximum of six thousand dollars ($6,000)
if a rural hospital applicant has had an average daily census comprised of 30 percent or more
Medicaid/Medicare patients within the last year prior to the filing of the application. The
minimum fee shall be set by the SHPDA. Fees shall be used...
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27-19A-12
Section 27-19A-12 Dental services - Coverages; fees; exceptions. (a) As used in this section,
the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COVERED PERSON. Any individual,
family, or family member on whose behalf third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical
expenses is provided under an insurance policy, plan, or contract providing for third-party
payment or prepayment of health care or medical expenses. (2) COVERED SERVICES. Dental care
services for which a reimbursement is available under an enrollee's plan contract, or for
which a reimbursement would be available but for the application of contractual limitations
such as deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, waiting periods, annual or lifetime maximums,
frequency limitations, alternative benefit payments, or any other limitation. (3) DENTAL CARE
PROVIDER. A licensed dentist. (4) DENTAL PLAN. Includes any policy of insurance which is issued
by a health care service contractor which provides for coverage of...
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7-9A-102
Section 7-9A-102 Definitions and index of definitions. (a) Article 9A definitions. In this
article: (1) "Accession" means goods that are physically united with other goods
in such a manner that the identity of the original goods is not lost. (2) "Account,"
except as used in "account for," means a right to payment of a monetary obligation,
whether or not earned by performance, (i) for property that has been or is to be sold, leased,
licensed, assigned, or otherwise disposed of, (ii) for services rendered or to be rendered,
(iii) for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued, (iv) for a secondary obligation incurred
or to be incurred, (v) for energy provided or to be provided, (vi) for the use or hire of
a vessel under a charter or other contract, (vii) arising out of the use of a credit or charge
card or information contained on or for use with the card, or (viii) as winnings in a lottery
or other game of chance operated or sponsored by a State, governmental unit of a State, or...
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20-2-190.2
Section 20-2-190.2 Electronic drug offender tracking system. (a) For the purposes of this section,
the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) DRUG RELATED CONVICTION. Any conviction
or plea of nolo contendere for the offense of possession, distribution, trafficking, or any
degree of manufacture of controlled substances, or drug paraphernalia. A drug related conviction
shall also include the inchoate crimes of attempt, solicitation, or conspiracy of any of the
drug related crimes. (2) DRUG OFFENDER. Any person who has any conviction listed in subdivision
(1). (b) Effective January 1, 2013, the State Bureau of Investigations shall implement a real-time
electronic drug offender tracking system to catalogue all criminal convictions in this state
of persons convicted of felonies or misdemeanors involving the possession, distribution, manufacture,
or trafficking of controlled substances. This catalogue shall include, but not be limited
to, paraphernalia convictions,...
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