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27-21A-15
Section 27-21A-15 Powers of insurers and health care service plans. (a) An insurance company
licensed in this state, or a health care service plan authorized to do business in this state,
may either directly or through a subsidiary or affiliate organize and operate a health maintenance
organization under the provisions of this chapter. Notwithstanding any other law which may
be inconsistent herewith, any two or more such insurance companies, health care service plans,
or subsidiaries or affiliates thereof, may jointly organize and operate a health maintenance
organization. The business of insurance is deemed to include the providing of health care
by a health maintenance organization owned or operated by an insurer or a subsidiary thereof.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of insurance and health care service plan laws, Title 10,
Chapter 4, Article 6 and Title 27, an insurer or a health care service plan may contract with
a health maintenance organization to provide insurance or...
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36-29-1
Section 36-29-1 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) BOARD.
The State Employees' Insurance Board. (2) CLASS. An employee or retiree shall be included
in one of the following classes: (i) active employee single, (ii) active employee family,
(iii) non-Medicare retiree single, (iv) non-Medicare retiree family, (v) Medicare retiree
single, (vi) Medicare retiree family, (vii) non-Medicare retiree with Medicare eligible dependent(s),
or (viii) Medicare retiree with non-Medicare dependent(s). (3) EMPLOYEE. A person who works
full time for the State of Alabama or for a county health department and who receives his
or her full compensation on a monthly basis through means of a state warrant drawn upon the
State Treasury or by check drawn by the Treasurer of the Alabama State Port Authority or by
check drawn by the treasurer of the Alabama state agency for surplus property...
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14-14-2
Section 14-14-2 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have the
following meanings: (1) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of the Department of Corrections. (2)
DEPARTMENT. The Department of Corrections. (3) GERIATRIC INMATE. A person 55 years of age
or older convicted in this state of a non-capital felony offense and sentenced to the penitentiary,
who suffers from a chronic life-threatening infirmity, life-threatening illness, or chronic
debilitating disease related to aging, who poses a low risk to the community, and who does
not constitute a danger to himself or herself or society. (4) PERMANENTLY INCAPACITATED INMATE.
A state inmate who possesses a permanent, irreversible physical or mental health condition
that prevents him or her from being able to perpetrate a violent physical action upon another
person or self or initiate or participate in a criminal act. The medical or mental health
treatment or need for assistance of such individual must require...
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22-8-1
Section 22-8-1 Persons physically or mentally unable to consent. No consent shall be required
for a licensed physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant
to provide any legally authorized medical or mental health services to a person when the person
is either physically unable to consent or mentally unable to consent and who, but for the
mental or physical disability, would be able to consent; provided, that two or more licensed
physicians, psychiatrists, or psychologists, or one licensed physician, psychiatrist, or psychologist
and one or more nurse practitioners or physician assistants, after having consultation, have
signed a written statement finding, in their judgment, that the medical services are necessary
and that a delay in treatment would increase the risk to the person's life or health. (Acts
1971, No. 2281, p. 3681, §6; Act 2019-355, §1.)...
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25-5-77
Section 25-5-77 Expenses of medical and surgical treatment, vocational rehabilitation, medicine,
etc.; medical examinations; review by ombudsman of medical services. (a) In addition to the
compensation provided in this article and Article 4 of this chapter, the employer, where applicable,
shall pay the actual cost of the repair, refitting, or replacement of artificial members damaged
as the result of an accident arising out of and in the course of employment, and the employer,
except as otherwise provided in this amendatory act, shall pay an amount not to exceed the
prevailing rate or maximum schedule of fees as established herein of reasonably necessary
medical and surgical treatment and attention, physical rehabilitation, medicine, medical and
surgical supplies, crutches, artificial members, and other apparatus as the result of an accident
arising out of and in the course of the employment, as may be obtained by the injured employee
or, in case of death, obtained during the period...
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27-19A-3
Section 27-19A-3 Prohibited provisions. No health insurance policy or employee benefit plan
which is delivered, renewed, issued for delivery, or otherwise contracted for in this state
shall: (1) Prevent any person who is a party to or beneficiary of any such health insurance
policy or employee benefit plan from selecting the dentist of his choice to furnish the dental
care services offered by said policy or plan or interfere with said selection provided the
dentist is licensed to furnish such dental care services in this state; (2) Deny any dentist
the right to participate as a contracting provider for such policy or plan provided the dentist
is licensed to furnish the dental care services offered by said policy or plan; (3) Authorize
any person to regulate, interfere, or intervene in any manner in the diagnosis or treatment
rendered by a dentist to his patient for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing, or
healing dental illness or injury provided said dentist practices within...
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27-55-8
Section 27-55-8 Construction. This chapter does not and shall not be construed as creating
a private cause of action and does not and shall not require insurers, including any health
benefit plan, to extend coverage to any providers or type of providers for which coverage
is not specifically provided within the policy or certificate of insurance or health benefit
plan, or to add additional providers to existing networks, or to add any health care benefits.
(Act 2000-595, p. 1185, §8.)...
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27-59-1
Section 27-59-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN. Any individual or group plan, employee welfare benefit
plan, policy, or contract for health care services issued, delivered, issued for delivery,
or renewed in this state by a health care insurer, health maintenance organization, accident
and sickness insurer, fraternal benefit society, nonprofit hospital service corporation, nonprofit
medical service corporation, health care service plan, or any other person, firm, corporation,
joint venture, or other similar business entity that pays for insureds or beneficiaries in
this state. The term includes, but is not limited to, entities created pursuant to Article
6 of Chapter 20 of Title 10A. A health benefit plan located or domiciled outside of the State
of Alabama is deemed to be subject to this chapter if it receives, processes, adjudicates,
pays, or denies claims for health care services submitted by or on...
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34-11-2
Section 34-11-2 Practice of engineering and land surveying regulated. (a) A person in either
public or private capacity may not practice or offer to practice engineering or land surveying,
unless he or she shall first have submitted evidence that he or she is qualified so to practice
and shall be licensed by the board as hereinafter provided or unless he or she is specifically
exempted from licensure under this chapter. (b) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter,
all engineering design of buildings, structures, products, machines, processes, and systems
that can affect health, life, safety, welfare, and property shall be conducted under the responsible
charge of a licensed professional engineer. (c) In order to safeguard health, life, safety,
welfare, and property, the practice of engineering in this state is a learned profession to
be practiced and regulated as such, and its practitioners in this state shall be held accountable
to the state and members of the public by high...
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34-29-61
Section 34-29-61 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have
the following meanings ascribed by this section: (1) ACCREDITED SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE.
Any veterinary college or division of a university or college that offers the degree of doctor
of veterinary medicine or its equivalent and is accredited by the American Veterinary Medical
Association (AVMA). (2) ANIMAL. Any animal or mammal other than man, including birds, fish,
reptiles, wild or domestic, living or dead. (3) APPLICANT. A person who files an application
to be licensed to practice veterinary medicine or licensed as a veterinary technician. (4)
BOARD. Alabama State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners. (5) CONSULTING VETERINARIAN. A
veterinarian licensed in another state who gives advice or demonstrates techniques to a licensed
Alabama veterinarian or group of licensed Alabama veterinarians. A consulting veterinarian
shall not utilize this privilege to circumvent the law. (6) DIRECT...
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