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22-11A-69
Section 22-11A-69 Confidentiality standards; uses of information gained during investigation.
(a) The records, proceedings, deliberations, and documents related to the investigation and
review of any infected health care worker are confidential and shall be used by committees,
licensing boards of licensed health care workers, panels, and individuals only in the exercise
of their official duties and shall not be public records nor be admissible in court for any
purpose nor subject to discovery in any civil action except appeals governed by Sections 22-11A-64
and 22-11A-65 and appeals from adverse professional license determinations made pursuant to
Sections 22-11A-66 and 22-11A-72(a). Information gained during the investigation of an infected
health care worker and the decision about restriction of practice of an infected health care
worker shall be made available to the appropriate licensing board and to the employer of an
infected health care worker and may be used by the licensing...
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22-6-220
Section 22-6-220 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words shall have
the following meanings: (1) CAPITATION PAYMENT. A payment the state Medicaid Agency makes
periodically to the integrated care network on behalf of each recipient enrolled under a contract
for the provision of medical services pursuant to this article. (2) COLLABORATOR. A private
health carrier, third party purchaser, provider, health care center, health care facility,
state and local governmental entity, or other public payers, corporations, individuals, and
consumers who are expecting to collectively cooperate, negotiate, or contract with another
collaborator, or integrated care network in the health care system. (3) INTEGRATED CARE NETWORK.
One or more statewide organizations of health care providers, with offices in each regional
care organization region, that contracts with the Medicaid Agency to provide Medicaid benefits
to certain Medicaid beneficiaries as defined in subdivision (4) and...
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22-6-23
Section 22-6-23 "Facility" defined. Where referred to in this article, facility shall
mean intermediate care facility and skilled nursing facility licensed by the State Board of
Health. More specific definitions shall be established by the department pursuant to the Alabama
Administrative Procedures Act in order to comply with OBRA. (Acts 1989, No. 89-641, p. 1268,
ยง4.)...
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27-19-103
would result in economies of acquisition or administration. 3. The benefits are reasonable
in relation to the premiums charged. (5) LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE. Any insurance policy or
rider advertised, marketed, offered, or designed to provide coverage for not less than 12
consecutive months for each covered person on an expense incurred, indemnity, prepaid, or
other basis for one or more necessary or medically necessary diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic,
rehabilitative, maintenance, or personal care services, provided in a setting other
than an acute care unit of a hospital. This term includes group and individual annuities and
life insurance policies or riders that provide directly or that supplement long-term care
insurance. This term also includes a policy or rider that provides for payment of benefits
based upon cognitive impairment or the loss of functional capacity. The term shall also include
qualified long-term care insurance contracts. Long-term care insurance may be...
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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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37-4-87
Section 37-4-87 Penalties. (a) Any person who violates any provision of this article or of
any regulation issued hereunder shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed two hundred
thousand dollars ($200,000) for each violation for each day that the violation persists. However,
the maximum civil penalty shall not exceed two million dollars ($2,000,000) for any related
series of violations. (b) Any civil penalty may be compromised by the commission. In determining
the amount of the penalty, or the amount agreed upon in compromise, the appropriateness of
the penalty to the size of the business of the person charged, the gravity of the violation,
and the good faith of the person charged in attempting to achieve compliance, after notification
of a violation, shall be considered. The amount of the penalty, when finally determined, or
the amount agreed upon in compromise, may be deducted from any sums owing by the State of
Alabama to the person charged, or may be recovered in a civil...
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37-4-96
Section 37-4-96 Penalties. (a) Any person who violates any provision of this article or any
regulation issued hereunder shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed two hundred
thousand dollars ($200,000) for each violation for each day that the violation persists. However,
the maximum civil penalty shall not exceed two million dollars ($2,000,000) for any related
series of violations. (b) In determining the amount of the penalty, the appropriateness of
the penalty to the size of the business of the person charged, the gravity of the violation,
and the good faith of the person charged in attempting to achieve compliance, after notification
of a violation, shall be considered. The amount of the penalty, when finally determined, or
the amount agreed upon in compromise, may be deducted from any sums owing by the State of
Alabama to the person charged, or may be recovered in a civil action brought by the commission
in the circuit court of any county in which a violation exists. (Acts...
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22-14-11
Section 22-14-11 Administrative action and judicial review. (a) In any proceeding under this
article: (1) For the issuance or modification of rules and regulations relating to control
or sources of ionizing radiation; (2) For granting, suspending, revoking or amending any license;
or (3) For determining compliance with rules and regulations of the agency, the agency shall
afford an opportunity for a hearing on the record upon the request of any person whose interest
may be affected by the proceeding and shall admit any such person as a party to such proceeding.
(b) Whenever the agency finds that an emergency exists requiring immediate action to protect
the public health and safety, the agency may, without notice or hearing, issue a regulation
or order reciting the existence of such emergency and requiring that such action be taken
as is necessary to meet the emergency. Notwithstanding any provision of this article, such
regulation or order shall be effective immediately. Any person to...
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22-6-150
Section 22-6-150 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words shall have
the following meanings: (1) ALTERNATE CARE PROVIDER. A contractor, other than a regional care
organization, that agrees to provide a comprehensive package of Medicaid benefits to Medicaid
beneficiaries in a defined region of the state pursuant to a risk contract. (2) CAPITATION
PAYMENT. A payment the state Medicaid Agency makes periodically to a contractor on behalf
of each recipient enrolled under a contract for the provision of medical services. (3) CARE
DELIVERY SYSTEM. The manner in which the benefits and services set forth in the state Medicaid
plan are provided to Medicaid beneficiaries. (4) COLLABORATOR. A private health carrier, third
party purchaser, provider, health care center, health care facility, state and local governmental
entity, or other public payers, corporations, individuals, and consumers who are expecting
to collectively cooperate, negotiate, or contract with another...
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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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