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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