16-25A-1
Section 16-25A-1 Definitions. When used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) EMPLOYEE. Any person covered by the Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Plan pursuant to Section 16-25A-11 or person who is employed full-time in any public institution of education within the State of Alabama which provides instruction at any combination of grades K through 14, exclusively, under the auspices of the State Board of Education or the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind; provided, any person employed part-time by any public institution of education within the State of Alabama which provides instruction at any combination of grades K through 14, exclusively, under the auspices of the State Board of Education or the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, shall be included in the definition of employee if such person shall agree to have deducted from his or her compensation a pro rata...
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16-25A-17
Section 16-25A-17 Partial funding of health insurance coverage for retired employees; method of determining amount; provisions supplemental. (a)(1) Any premiums paid to the Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Board for active employees shall include an amount to partially fund the cost of coverage for retired employees. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the plan becomes fully funded pursuant to this article, this section shall not apply. (2) The amount authorized by subdivision (1) of this subsection shall not be less than an amount determined by multiplying the number of retired employees by an individual retired employee rate. The individual retired employee rate shall be determined by multiplying the full cost of coverage for a retired employee eligible to receive benefits under the federal Medicare program times the fractional amount derived by dividing the current individual premium for an employee not eligible for benefits under the federal Medicare program by the full...
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22-50-17
Section 22-50-17 Operation of a facility for care or treatment of mental or emotional illness or substance abuse, or services to persons with an intellectual disability. (a) No person, partnership, corporation, or association of persons shall operate a facility or institution for the care or treatment of any kind of mental or emotional illness or substance abuse or for providing services to persons with an intellectual disability as defined in this chapter, without being certified by the department or licensed by the State Board of Health; provided that nothing in this section shall be construed so as to require a duly authorized physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, licensed professional counselor operating under the scope of his or her license, or Christian Science practitioner to obtain a license for treatment of patients in his private office, unless he keeps two or more patients in his office for continuous periods of 24 hours or more in one week, or that a church...
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27-14-11.1
Section 27-14-11.1 Contents of policies - Denial or reduction of benefits due to Medicaid eligibility void. (a) For purposes of this section, "private insurer" is defined as any of the following: (1) Any commercial insurance company offering health or casualty insurance to individuals or groups, including both experience-rated contracts and indemnity contracts. (2) Any profit or nonprofit prepaid plan offering either medical services or full or partial payment for the diagnosis or treatment of an injury, disease, or disability. (3) Any organization administering health or casualty insurance plans for professional associations, unions, fraternal groups, employer-employee benefit plans, and any similar organization offering these payments or services, including self-insured and self-funded plans. (4) Any health insurer, including group health plans, as defined in Section 607(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, self-insured plans, service benefit plans, managed care...
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27-19-28
Section 27-19-28 Exclusion of hospitalization benefits for mental patients in tax-supported institutions. (a) No policy of health, sickness, or accident insurance delivered, or issued for delivery, in this state, including both individual and group policies, which provide coverage for psychiatric treatment or mental illness shall exclude hospitalization benefits for mental patients in tax-supported institutions of the State of Alabama, or any county or municipality thereof. (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any policy of insurance in effect prior to September 20, 1971, nor shall the provisions of this section apply to any employee benefit plan providing hospital benefits for mental patients where such employee benefit plan is established by the employer and contributions to the plan are provided by the employer and the employee, or either of them, and such plan is not evidenced by individual, or group or blanket policies of health, sickness, or accident insurance...
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11-91A-2
Section 11-91A-2 Local Government Health Insurance Board; governance and administration of program. (a) The Local Government Health Insurance Board shall govern and administer the Local Government Health Insurance Program currently governed and administered by the State Employees' Insurance Board (SEIB) pursuant to Chapter 29 of Title 36. The transfer of the governance and administration to the board shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on January 1, 2015, and thereafter the board shall take all control and responsibility for the program under procedures and authority set out in this chapter. (b) The program governed and administered by the board shall provide a reasonable relationship between the health care benefits to be included and the expected health care expenses to be incurred by affected employees, retirees, and their dependents. The board may establish a fully insured or self-insured health care plan for employees and retirees as defined in this chapter and may adopt rules for the...
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16-25A-6
Section 16-25A-6 Exclusions. Such health insurance shall not include the following: (1) Expenses incurred by or on account of an individual prior to the effective date of the plan as to him; (2) Hearing aids and examinations for the prescription or fitting thereof; (3) Cosmetic surgery or treatment, except to the extent necessary for correction of damage caused by accidental injury while covered by the plan or as a direct result of disease covered by the plan; (4) Services received in a hospital owned or operated by the United States government for which no charge is made; (5) Services received for injury or sickness due to war or any act of war, whether declared or undeclared, which war or act of war shall have occurred after the effective date of this plan; (6) Expenses for which the individual is not required to make payment; (7) Expenses to the extent of benefits provided under any employer group plan other than this plan in which the state participates in the cost thereof; (8)...
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27-12-10
Section 27-12-10 Financial inducements to purchase insurance. (a) No person shall issue or deliver, or permit its agents, officers, or employees to issue or deliver, agency company stock or other capital stock, or benefit certificates or shares in any common-law corporation, or securities, or any special or advisory board contract or other contract of any kind promising returns and profits as an inducement to insurance. The commissioner shall refuse to issue a certificate of authority or license to any insurer or other person that is in violation of this section and shall revoke the certificate of authority or license of any such violating insurer or person if such authority or license is already outstanding. (b) No person shall issue or deliver, or permit its agents, officers, or employees to issue or deliver, in this state, any life insurance policy or contract of annuity in which are used such words as "investment plan," "expansion plan," "profit-sharing," "charter plan," "founders'...
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34-19-16
Section 34-19-16 Where care may be performed; required forms an duties of licensed midwife. (a) A licensed midwife may provide midwifery care in the setting of the client's choice, except a hospital. (b) A licensed midwife shall ensure that the client has signed a midwife disclosure form provided by the board indicating receipt of a written statement that includes all of the following information: (1) A description of the licensed midwife's education, training, and experience in midwifery. (2) Antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum conditions requiring medical referral, transfer of care, and transport to a hospital. (3) A plan for medical referral, transfer of care, and transport of the client or newborn or both when indicated by specific antepartum, intrapartum, or postpartum conditions. (4) Instructions for filing a complaint against a licensed midwife. (5) A statement that the licensed midwife must comply with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. (6) The...
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27-15-52
Section 27-15-52 Definitions. The following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE EFFORT. The plans, processes, or procedures necessary to confirm the death of the insured, contract owner or annuitant, or retained asset account holder against other available records and information and, as applicable, to locate the beneficiary or beneficiaries or other person entitled to payment pursuant to the terms of the policy or contract which have been developed by each insurer and submitted to and approved by the department. (2) CONTRACT. An annuity contract. The term contract shall not include an annuity used to fund an employment-based retirement plan or program where the insurer is not committed by terms of the annuity contract to pay death benefits to the beneficiaries of specific plan participants. (3) DEATH MASTER FILE. The United States Social Security Administration's Death Master File or any other database or service that is at least as comprehensive as...
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