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45-49-171.61
Section 45-49-171.61 County Medical Examiner; deputies. The State Medical Examiner assigned
to the Department of Forensic Sciences, Region IV office in Mobile, Alabama, shall also serve
as the County Medical Examiner for Mobile County. Other state medical examiners may be assigned
as deputy county medical examiners. (Act 87-525, p. 794, § 2.)...
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22-2-9
Section 22-2-9 Council on Dental Health, Council on Animal and Environmental Health,
Council on Prevention of Disease and Medical Care and Council on Health Costs, Administration
and Organization - Creation; duties; composition; appointment and terms of members. (a) There
are hereby created four councils to be known as: (1) The Council on Dental Health; (2) The
Council on Animal and Environmental Health; (3) The Council on the Prevention of Disease and
Medical Care; and (4) The Council on Health Costs, Administration and Organization. (b) It
shall be the duty of the councils to provide public health information, evaluation of data,
research, advice and recommendations to the State Committee of Public Health and perform such
other functions as may be appropriate and as requested by the State Committee of Public Health.
(c) The Council on Dental Health shall be composed of five members licensed to practice dentistry
in this state and appointed by the Alabama Dental Association. The...
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45-37-60
Section 45-37-60 Definitions. As herein used, these terms have the meanings hereby given
them: (1) CORONER-MEDICAL EXAMINERS' OFFICE. The office wherein or wherefrom the staff performs
the duties the governing body assigns the staff. (2) GOVERNING BODY. The governing body of
Jefferson County. (3) STAFF. The coroner-medical examiners, representatives, and agents this
part authorizes the governing body to appoint. (Act 79-454, p. 739, §1.)...
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45-27-60.06
Section 45-27-60.06 Execution of death certificate; circumstances requiring notice to
Department of Forensic Sciences. (a) After investigating a death, if the county medical examiner
or the designated assistant is satisfied that the death was not caused by criminal act or
omission and that there are no suspicious circumstances about the death, then the county medical
examiner, or designated assistant, may execute a death certificate as required by law, and
authorize release of the body for final disposition on a certificate as prescribed by the
State Health Department. (b) The county medical examiner shall contact the State Medical Examiner
of Alabama Forensic Sciences under the following circumstances: (1) If the deceased is unidentified.
(2) If the county medical examiner suspects a death was caused by a criminal act or omission.
(3) If the cause of death is obscure. (c) The State Medical Examiner shall further examine
the body, take, retain, and examine or have examined whatever...
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45-37-60.01
Section 45-37-60.01 Office of coroner abolished. In Jefferson County the office of coroner
is abolished and all powers, rights, and duties now or hereafter authorized or required by
law to be performed by coroners shall be exercised and performed by the governing body through
appointed coroners-medical examiners, representatives, or agents, for the performance of such
duties in the entire county or in a designated portion thereof, pursuant to this part and
the rules promulgated by the herein established Coroner-Medical Examiners' Commission. (Act
79-454, p. 739, §2.)...
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45-49-171.65
Section 45-49-171.65 Issuance of death certificate. If after investigating a death,
the county medical examiner or his or her designated assistant, who shall be a physician licensed
to practice medicine in Alabama, is satisfied that the death was not caused by criminal act
or omission and that there are no suspicious circumstances about the death, then the county
medical examiner, or his or her designated assistant, may execute a death certificate in the
form required by law and authorize release of the body for final disposition on a certificate
as prescribed by the State Health Department. If the deceased is unidentified, or if the county
medical examiner suspects a death was caused by a criminal act or omission, or if the cause
of death is obscure, he, she, or a qualified pathologist, licensed to practice medicine in
Alabama and under his or her direction, shall further examine the body and take, retain, and
examine or have examined whatever tissues, biological fluids, or other...
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27-21A-1
Section 27-21A-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings, respectively: (1) AGENT. A person who is appointed or employed by
a health maintenance organization and who engages in solicitation of membership in such organization.
This definition does not include a person enrolling members on behalf of an employer, union,
or other organization. (2) BASIC HEALTH CARE SERVICES. Emergency care, inpatient hospital
and physician care, and outpatient medical services. (3) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of
Insurance. (4) ENROLLEE. An individual who is enrolled in a health maintenance organization.
(5) EVIDENCE OF COVERAGE. Any certificate, agreement, or contract issued to an enrollee setting
out the coverage to which he is entitled. (6) HEALTH CARE SERVICES. Any services included
in the furnishing to any individual of medical or dental care, or hospitalization or incident
to the furnishing of such care or hospitalization, as well as the...
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22-11A-2
Section 22-11A-2 Persons responsible to report diseases; contents of report; confidential
information; person making report immune from liability. Each physician, dentist, nurse, medical
examiner, hospital administrator, nursing home administrator, laboratory director, school
principal, and day care center director shall be responsible to report cases or suspected
cases of notifiable diseases and health conditions. The report shall contain such information,
and be delivered in such a manner, as may be provided for from time to time by the rules of
the State Board of Health. All medical and statistical information and reports required by
this article shall be confidential and shall not be subject to the inspection, subpoena, or
admission into evidence in any court, except proceedings brought under this article to compel
the examination, testing, commitment or quarantine of any person or upon the written consent
of the patient, or if the patient is a minor, his parent or legal guardian....
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34-23-183
Section 34-23-183 Application. This article shall apply to any audit of the records
of a pharmacy conducted by a managed care company, nonprofit hospital or medical service organization,
health benefit plan, third-party payor, pharmacy benefit manager, a health program administered
by a department of the state, except the Alabama Medicaid Agency, or any entity that represents
those companies, groups, or department. (Act 2012-306, p. 668, §4; Act 2018-457, §1.)...
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45-37-60.07
Section 45-37-60.07 Duty to investigate certain deaths. Pursuant to rules and regulations
promulgated by the Coroner-Medical Examiners' Commission, it shall be the duty of the chief
and associate coroner-medical examiners to review or investigate and determine, the cause
and manner of any death, when such death may fall within one or more of the following categories
subject to the commission's power to change the categories: (1) Criminal violence or criminal
neglect. (2) Criminal abortion. (3) When a body is to be cremated, dissected, or buried at
sea. (4) Unclaimed bodies. (5) When a dead body is brought into this state without proper
medical certification. (6) Accident, when requested by surviving spouse, if any, or next of
kin. (7) Unexpected death while under anesthesia or within 24 hours following anesthesia,
or any other diagnostic or therapeutic procedure with the written permission of the surviving
spouse or next of kin. (8) In any prison or penal institution. (9) When in...
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