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11-32-7
Section 11-32-7 Powers of authority. (a) The authority shall exercise powers and duties necessary
to the discharge of its powers and duties in corporate form as follows: (1) Have succession
by its corporate name in perpetuity subject to Section 11-32-20. (2) Sue and be sued in its
own name in civil suits and actions and defend suits against it. (3) Adopt and make use of
a corporate seal and alter the same at its pleasure. (4) Adopt and alter bylaws for the regulation
and conduct of its affairs and business. (5) Acquire, receive, take, by purchase, gift, lease,
devise, or otherwise, and hold property of every description, real, personal, or mixed, whether
located in one or more counties or municipalities and whether located within or outside the
authorizing county. (6) Make, enter into, and execute contracts, agreements, leases, and other
instruments and take other actions as may be necessary or convenient to accomplish any purpose
for which the authority was organized, or exercise any...
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11-49B-7
Section 11-49B-7 Powers of authority. The authority shall exercise, subject to this chapter,
the following powers and duties necessary to the discharge of its powers and duties in corporate
form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time, which may be
perpetual, subject to the provisions of Section 11-49B-19 specified in its certificate of
incorporation. (2) To sue and be sued in its own name in civil suits and actions and to defend
suits against it. (3) To adopt and make use of a corporate seal and to alter the seal at pleasure.
(4) To adopt and alter bylaws for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business.
(5) To acquire, receive, and take, by purchase, gift, lease, devise, or otherwise, and to
hold property of every description, real, personal, or mixed, whether located in one or more
counties or municipalities and whether located within or outside the authorizing county. (6)
To make, enter into, and execute contracts, agreements, leases, and...
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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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22-6-228
Section 22-6-228 Risk contracts. A risk contract between the Medicaid Agency and an integrated
care network shall be for two years, with the option for Medicaid to renew the contract for
not more than three additional one-year periods. The Medicaid Agency shall obtain provider
input and an independent evaluation of the cost savings, patient outcomes, and quality of
care provided by an integrated care network, and obtain the results of an integrated care
network's evaluation in time to use the findings to decide whether to enter into another multi-year
contract with the integrated care networks or change the Medicaid care delivery system associated
with an integrated care network. (Act 2015-322, §10.)...
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22-6-230
Section 22-6-230 Rates for contracting services; provider requirements. An integrated care
network shall contract with any willing nursing home, doctor, home and community waiver program,
or other provider to provide services through an integrated care network if the provider is
willing to accept the payments and terms offered comparable providers, where applicable, but
in no event less than amounts historically paid by the Medicaid Agency to comparable providers.
To the extent that the Medicaid Agency currently calculates and establishes provider-specific
rates for any provider category on an annualized basis, it shall continue to calculate and
establish such rates and the integrated care network shall be required to offer providers
from that category not less than their established rates. Any provider shall meet licensing
requirements set by law, shall have a Medicaid provider number, and shall not otherwise be
disqualified from participating in Medicare or Medicaid. (Act 2015-322,...
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22-6-232
Section 22-6-232 Coverage of Medicaid beneficiaries by integrated care networks. (a) The Medicaid
Agency shall determine by rule which groups of Medicaid beneficiaries to include for coverage
by an integrated care network. The Medicaid Agency, without the approval of the Governor,
shall not make a coverage decision that would affect Medicaid beneficiaries who are directly
served by another state agency. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the current Medicaid long-term
care programs shall continue as currently administered by the Medicaid Agency until one or
more integrated care networks are fully operational and has entered into a risk contract as
provided herein. (Act 2015-322, §14.)...
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22-6-225
Section 22-6-225 Denial of claims; grievances and appeals. (a) The Medicaid Agency shall establish
by rule procedures for safeguarding against wrongful denial of claims and addressing grievances
of enrollees in an integrated care network. (b) If a patient or the provider is dissatisfied
with the decision of an integrated care network, the patient or provider may file a written
notice of appeal to the Medicaid Agency. The Medicaid Agency shall adopt rules governing the
appeal, which shall include a full evidentiary hearing and a finding on the record. The Medicaid
Agency's decision shall be binding upon the integrated care network. However, a patient or
provider may file an appeal in circuit court in the county in which the patient resides, or
the county in which the provider provides services. (c) The Medicaid Agency shall by rule
establish procedures for addressing grievances and appeals of the integrated care network.
The appeal procedure shall include an opportunity for a fair...
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22-6-233
Section 22-6-233 Legislative findings; certification of collaborators; powers of Medicaid Agency;
state action immunity. (a) The Legislature declares that collaboration among public payers,
private health carriers, third party purchasers, and providers to identify appropriate service
delivery systems and reimbursement methods in order to align incentives in support of integrated
and coordinated health care delivery is in the best interest of the public. Collaboration
pursuant to this article is to provide quality health care at the lowest possible cost to
Alabama citizens who are Medicaid eligible. The Legislature, therefore, declares that this
health care delivery system affirmatively contemplates the foreseeable displacement of competition,
such that any anti-competitive effect may be attributed to the state's policy to displace
competition in the delivery of a coordinated system of health care for the public benefit.
In furtherance of this goal, the Legislature declares its intent...
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40-26B-70
Section 40-26B-70 Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) ACCESS PAYMENT. A payment by the Medicaid program to an eligible
hospital for inpatient or outpatient hospital care, or both, provided to a Medicaid recipient.
(2) ALL PATIENT REFINED DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUP (APR-DRG). A statistical system of classifying
any non-Medicare inpatient stay into groups for the purposes of payment. (3) 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. (4) CERTIFIED PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (CPE). A certification
in writing of the cost of providing medical care to Medicaid beneficiaries by publicly owned
hospitals and hospitals owned by a state agency or a state university plus the amount of uncompensated
care provided by publicly owned hospitals and hospitals...
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11-47-69
Section 11-47-69 Care, etc., of lands, etc., in which remains reinterred. Whenever any cemetery
corporation or association having a board of directors or other governing body shall have
caused the removal from any cemetery or part thereof owned by it or under its charge or control
the human remains therein interred and said cemetery corporation or association shall have
funds in its treasury which are not required for other purposes of said corporation, said
corporation shall have power to set aside, invest, use, and apply from such unexpended funds
such sum as, in the judgment of the directors of said corporation, shall be necessary or expedient
to provide for the perpetual or other care or improvement of any lands or mausoleum or columbarium
or part thereof in which said remains may be reinterred or deposited; provided, however, that
in lieu of itself investing, using or applying said funds for the purposes in this section
specified, said cemetery corporation may transfer said funds...
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