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22-21-293
Section 22-21-293 Financial responsibility for out-of-county indigent patients treated
at a regional referral hospital. Ultimate financial responsibility for treatment received
at a regional referral hospital by a certified indigent patient, who is a resident of the
State of Alabama but is not a resident of the county in which the regional referral hospital
is located, shall be the obligation of the county of which the certified indigent patient
is a resident. A county's annual financial responsibility for each of its resident certified
indigent patients receiving treatment at a regional referral hospital shall be limited to
payment for 30 days or the number of days of services allowed per annum for the care of Medicaid
patients through the State Medicaid Program at the time of the patient's hospitalization,
whichever shall be less, at the per diem reimbursement rate currently in effect for the regional
referral hospital under the medical assistance program for the needy under Title...
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22-21-297
Section 22-21-297 Certification necessary for treatment; exception. No patient shall
be treated or admitted to, except in the case of an emergency, to a regional referral hospital
as an indigent unless and until the board of county commissioners of the county providing
certification notifies the hospital that the patient is certified as an indigent and that
he is approved by the board for treatment or admission. (Acts 1979, No. 79-808, p. 1487, ยง8.)...
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22-21-294
Section 22-21-294 Certification of indigency; rules. Not later than October 1, 1979,
the Department of Human Resources shall adopt rules which provide a statewide eligibility
standard to certify residents of each county as indigent for the purposes of this article.
These rules shall further provide that certification as indigent for the purposes of this
article may occur either prior to a person's admission to a regional referral hospital, or
subsequent to such admission for an emergency condition, but in any event if a determination
of whether a patient meets or does not meet eligibility standards for certification as indigent
for the purpose of this article is not made within 90 days following written notification
by the regional referral hospital to the county of residence of the patient's admission to
a regional referral hospital, the patient shall be considered to have been a certified indigent
patient upon admission. A patient certified as indigent for the purpose of this article...
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22-21-33
Section 22-21-33 Penalties for operation of or referring persons to unlicensed hospital.
(a)(1) Any individual, association, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or
other business entity who operates or causes to be operated a hospital of any kind as defined
in this article or any rules promulgated hereunder, without having been granted a license
by the State Board of Health shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor upon conviction, except
that any individual, association, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or
other business entity who operates or causes to be operated a hospital of any kind as defined
in this article or any rules promulgated hereunder without having been granted a license by
the State Board of Health shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor upon conviction of a second
or any subsequent offense. (2) The State Board of Health, upon determination that a facility
or business is operating as a hospital, within the meaning of this article or...
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25-4-10
Section 25-4-10 Employment. (a) Subject to other provisions of this chapter, "employment"
means: (1) Any service performed prior to January 1, 1978, which was employment as defined
in this section prior to such date and, subject to the other provisions of this section,
services performed for remuneration after December 31, 1977, including service in interstate
commerce, by: a. Any officer of a corporation; or b. Any individual who, under the usual common
law rules applicable in determining the employer-employee relationship, has the status of
an employee; or c. Any individual other than an individual who is an employee under paragraphs
a. or b. of this subdivision (1) who performs services for remuneration for any person: 1.
As an agent-driver or commission-driver engaged in distributing meat products, bakery products,
beverages (other than milk) or laundry or dry cleaning services for a principal; 2. As a traveling
or city salesman engaged upon a full-time basis in the solicitation on...
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22-21-292
Section 22-21-292 Definitions. For the purpose of this article the following terms shall
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) LOCAL AGENCY.
Any county existing or hereafter created pursuant to the laws of this state. (2) INDIGENT.
Any person who has resided continuously in this state for not less than one year and who is
acutely ill or injured and can be helped markedly by treatment in a hospital, but who is unable
to pay the cost of such hospitalization from his own resources or from the resources of those
upon whom he is legally dependent. (3) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Human Resources. (4)
HOSPITAL. Any state, county, municipal or other public or private hospital licensed under
the laws of this state, except a hospital, whether public or private, which is operated primarily
for the care and treatment of tuberculosis, mental disorders or any other such chronic disease
or illness. (5) REGIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITAL. Any hospital that provides services to...
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22-5A-2
Section 22-5A-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following words shall
have the meanings ascribed to them by this section: (1) ADMINISTRATOR. Any person charged
with the general administration or supervision of a health care, domiciliary or residential
facility without regard to whether such person has an ownership interest in such facility
or to whether such person's functions and duties are shared with one or more other persons.
(2) COMMUNITY OMBUDSMAN. A person selected by an area agency on aging who is then trained
and certified as such by the commission pursuant to Section 22-5A-4. (3) DEPARTMENT.
Department of Senior Services. (4) HEALTH CARE FACILITY. Any skilled nursing facility, intermediate
care facility, domiciliary, boarding home facility or hospital now or hereafter subject to
regulation or licensure by the Bureau of Licensure and Certification of the State Department
of Health or a county department of health which provides any generally accepted facet...
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34-9-6.1
Section 34-9-6.1 Mobile dental facilities or portable dental operations. (a) For purposes
of this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) DENTAL HOME.
The dental home is the ongoing relationship between the dentist and the patient, inclusive
of all aspects of oral health care, delivered in a comprehensive, continuously accessible,
coordinated, and family-centered way. (2) MOBILE DENTAL FACILITY. Any self-contained facility
in which dentistry or dental hygiene is practiced which may be moved, towed, or transported
from one location to another. (3) OPERATOR. A person licensed to practice dentistry in this
state or an entity which is approved as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
Revenue Code which employs dentists licensed in the state to operate a mobile dental facility
or portable dental operation. (4) PORTABLE DENTAL OPERATION. The use of portable dental delivery
equipment which is set up on site to provide dental services outside of a mobile...
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22-21-265
Section 22-21-265 Certificates of need - Required for new institutional health service.
(a) On or after July 30, 1979, no person to which this article applies shall acquire, construct,
or operate a new institutional health service, as defined in this article, or furnish or offer,
or purport to furnish a new institutional health service, as defined in this article, or make
an arrangement or commitment for financing the offering of a new institutional health service,
unless the person shall first obtain from the SHPDA a certificate of need therefor. Notwithstanding
any provisions of this article to the contrary, those facilities and distinct units operated
by the Department of Mental Health, and those facilities and distinct units operating under
contract or subcontract with the Department of Mental Health where the contract constitutes
the primary source of income to the facility, shall not be required to obtain a certificate
of need under this article. (b) Notwithstanding all other...
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41-15B-2.2
Section 41-15B-2.2 Allocation of trust fund revenues. (a) For each fiscal year, beginning
October 1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues
and upon appropriation by the Legislature, an amount of up to and including two hundred twenty-five
thousand dollars ($225,000), or equivalent percentage of the total fund, shall be designated
for the administration of the fund by the council and the Commissioner of Children's Affairs.
(b) For the each fiscal year, beginning October 1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First
Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues, the remainder of the Children First Trust Fund, in
the amounts provided for in Section 41-15B-2.1, shall be allocated as follows: (1)
Ten percent of the fund shall be allocated to the Department of Public Health for distribution
to one or more of the following: a. The Children's Health Insurance Program. b. Programs for
tobacco control among children with the purpose being to reduce the consumption...
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