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22-21-312
Section 22-21-312 Legislative findings and intent. The Legislature hereby finds and declares:
(1) That publicly-owned (as distinguished from investor-owned and community-nonprofit) hospitals
and other health care facilities furnish a substantial part of the indigent and reduced-rate
care and other health care services furnished to residents of the state by hospitals and other
health care facilities generally; (2) That as a result of current significant fiscal and budgetary
limitations or restrictions, the state and the various counties, municipalities, and educational
institutions therein are no longer able to provide, from taxes and other general fund moneys,
all the revenues and funds necessary to operate such publicly-owned hospitals and other health
care facilities adequately and efficiently; and (3) That to enable such publicly-owned hospitals
and other health care facilities to continue to operate adequately and efficiently, it is
necessary that the entities and agencies...
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34-14C-5
Section 34-14C-5 Exemptions. The licensure requirements of this chapter do not apply to the
following entities or practitioners: (1) Home health agencies certified by the State of Alabama
to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. (2) Hospital based home medical equipment
services, whether or not the services are provided through a separate corporation or other
business entity. (3) Health care practitioners legally eligible to order or prescribe home
medical equipment, or who use home medical equipment to treat patients in locations other
than the patient's residence, including, but not limited to, physicians, nurses, physical
therapists, respiratory therapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, optometrists,
chiropractors, and podiatrists, except for those practitioners, other than a licensed physician
practicing medicine, who provide home medical equipment services in a patient's residence.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting or restricting...
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22-21-27
Section 22-21-27 Advisory board. (a) There shall be an advisory board of 17 members to assist
in the establishment of rules, regulations, and standards necessary to carry out this article
and to serve as consultants to the State Health Officer. The board shall meet at least twice
each year and at the call of the State Health Officer. The board may meet by electronic means
in compliance with the Alabama Open Meetings Act and shall establish rules of procedure for
its meetings. The members of the board shall annually elect one of its members to serve as
chair. (b) The advisory board shall be constituted in the following manner: (1) Four representatives
of hospitals who shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Hospital Association
as follows: a. One administrator of a governmental hospital. b. One administrator of a nongovernmental
nonprofit hospital. c. One owner or administrator of a proprietary hospital. d. One member
of a managing board of a nonprofit hospital. (2)...
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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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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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27-21A-10
Section 27-21A-10 Complaint system. (a)(1) Every health maintenance organization shall establish
and maintain a complaint system which has been approved by the commissioner, after consultation
with the State Health Officer, to provide reasonable procedures for the resolution of written
complaints initiated by enrollees. (2) Each health maintenance organization shall submit to
the commissioner and the State Health Officer an annual report in a form prescribed by the
commissioner, after consultation with the State Health Officer, which shall include: a. A
description of the procedures of such complaint system; b. The total number of complaints
handled through such complaint system and a compilation of causes underlying the complaints
filed; and c. The number, amount, and disposition of malpractice claims and other claims relating
to the service or care rendered by the health maintenance organization made by enrollees of
the organization that were settled during the year by the health...
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14-14-5
Section 14-14-5 Medical release application; eligibility factors; revocation; notice. (a) An
inmate, or any concerned person, including, but not limited to, the inmate's attorney, family,
physician, or an employee or official of the department may initiate consideration for medical
furlough by submitting to the department an initial medical release application form along
with supporting documentation. (b)(1) The initial application form shall include the report
of a physician or physicians employed by the department or its health care provider and a
notarized report of at least one other duly licensed physician who is board certified in the
field of medicine for which the inmate is seeking a medical furlough and who is not an employee
of the department. These reports shall each be of the opinion that the inmate is either terminally
ill, permanently incapacitated, or that the inmate suffers from a chronic infirmity, illness,
or disease related to aging. (2) The commissioner shall...
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22-15A-3
Section 22-15A-3 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall
have the following meanings: (1) BAR AND LOUNGE. Any establishment which is primarily devoted
to the serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption by patrons on the premises and in which
the serving of food is only incidental to the consumption of beverages. Although a restaurant
may contain a bar, the term "bar" shall not include the restaurant dining area.
(2) CHILD CARE FACILITY. Any facility caring for children. (3) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department
of Public Health. (4) EMPLOYER. Any person, partnership, association, corporation, or nonprofit
entity that employs five or more persons, including the legislative, executive, and judicial
branches of state government; and any county, city, town, or village or any other political
subdivision of the state; any public authority, commission, agency, or public benefit corporation;
or any other separate corporate instrumentality or unit of state or...
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22-52-10.6
Section 22-52-10.6 Petition for renewal of inpatient commitment order; probate court; special
judge; notice; hearing. (a) A petition for renewal of an inpatient commitment order may be
filed by the director of a state mental health facility or his designee at least 30 days prior
to the expiration of the current commitment order. The petition, together with a copy of the
original commitment order and copies of any subsequent renewal commitment orders, shall be
filed with the probate court of the county where the facility is located. The petition shall
explain in detail why renewal of the order is being requested, and shall further explain in
detail why less restrictive conditions of treatment are not appropriate. (b) Such probate
court may consider, hear, and enter appropriate orders pursuant to this section or may request
that the case be heard by a special judge of probate. (c) Whenever and wherever it shall become
necessary that a special judge of probate be provided to hear and...
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22-6-10
Section 22-6-10 Women's right to health care. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited
as the "Women's Right to Health Care Act." (b) Any state program funded under Title
XIX of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 1396 et seq., and any other publicly
funded state health care program which provides coverage for mastectomy surgery shall also
provide coverage for reconstruction of the breast on which surgery has been performed and
surgery and reconstruction of the other breast to produce a symmetrical appearance if the
patient is eligible for Medicaid and elects reconstruction within two years of the mastectomy
surgery and in the manner chosen by the patient and the physician, in accordance with guidelines
consistent with Medicare and other third party payers. Reimbursement is allowed only for breast
reconstructive surgery following a medically necessary mastectomy when performed for the removal
of cancer. As used in this section, the term "reconstruction" shall...
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