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34-22-4
Section 34-22-4 Limitation on application of chapter. (a) It is not the intent of this
chapter to prevent any school teacher, welfare worker, state, county, municipality, or other
public board, body, agency, institution, or official from determining in the course of their
official duties the probable need of visual services; provided, that the aforenamed person
or agency does not attempt to examine, diagnose, prescribe, or recommend any particular practitioner
and complies with the provisions of Section 38-1-2. (b) A license to practice optometry
shall not be required for the sale, preparation, or dispensing of eyeglasses or spectacles
in a retail optical dispensary or from a store, shop, or other permanently established place
of business with an optical department on prescription of a duly licensed physician skilled
in diseases of the eyes or a duly licensed optometrist authorized to practice under the laws
of this state. Contact lenses may be sold or dispensed in a retail optical...
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34-39-3
Section 34-39-3 Definitions. In this chapter, the following terms shall have the respective
meanings provided in this section unless the context clearly requires a different meaning:
(1) ASSOCIATION. The Alabama Occupational Therapy Association. (2) BOARD. The Alabama State
Board of Occupational Therapy. (3) LICENSE. A valid and current certificate of registration
issued by the Alabama State Board of Occupational Therapy. (4) OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY. a. The
practice of occupational therapy means the therapeutic use of occupations, including everyday
life activities with individuals, groups, populations, or organizations to support participation,
performance, and function in roles and situations in home, school, workplace, community, and
other settings. Occupational therapy services are provided for habilitation, rehabilitation,
and the promotion of health and wellness to those who have or are at risk for developing an
illness, injury, disease, disorder, condition, impairment, disability,...
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34-24-292
Section 34-24-292 Services performed by trainees and assistants. (a) Notwithstanding
any other provision of law, a licensed assistant to a physician may perform medical services
when the services are rendered under the supervision of a licensed physician or physicians
approved by the board; except, that no medical services may be performed under this article
except under the supervision of an ophthalmologist in the office in which the physician normally
actually practices his or her profession and nowhere else in any of the following areas: (1)
The measurement of the powers or range of human vision or the determination of the accommodation
and refractive state of the human eye or the scope of its functions in general or the fitting
or adaptation of lenses or frames for the aid thereof. (2) The prescribing or directing the
use of or using any optical device in connection with ocular exercises, visual training, or
orthoptics. (3) The prescribing of contact lenses for or the fitting or...
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20-2-60
Section 20-2-60 Definitions. As used in this article the following words shall have
the following meanings: (1) ADMINISTER. The direct application of a controlled substance,
whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, to the body of a patient
by any of the following: a. A supervising physician, or, in his or her presence, his or her
authorized agent. b. An assistant to physician. c. The patient at the direction and in the
presence of the supervising physician or assistant to physician. (2) ASSISTANT TO PHYSICIAN.
Any person who is a graduate of an approved program, is licensed by the board, and is registered
by the board to perform medical services under the supervision of a physician approved by
the board to supervise an assistant to physician. (3) BOARD. The Board of Medical Examiners
of the State of Alabama. (4) PHYSICIAN SUPERVISION. A formal relationship between a licensed
assistant to physician and a supervising physician under whom the assistant to physician...
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22-4-11
Section 22-4-11 Preparation, adoption, etc., of preliminary state health plan generally;
provision in plan for visual care. The State Board of Health, with the advice and consultation
of the Statewide Health Coordinating Council, is hereby authorized and empowered to prepare,
review and revise as necessary a preliminary state health plan which shall be made up of the
health systems plans of the health systems agencies within the state. The state agency may
make revisions of the health systems plans to achieve appropriate coordination or to deal
more effectively with statewide health needs. The preliminary state health plan shall be submitted
to the statewide health coordinating council for approval or disapproval and for its use in
developing the State Health Plan. The State Board of Health is authorized to confer with any
or all other persons, organizations or governmental agencies that have an interest in public
health problems and needs. Any portion of the State Health Plan that...
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27-56-10
Section 27-56-10 Vision care providers - Contract requirements; rates; reimbursements;
discounts. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following
meanings: (1) CONTRACTUAL DISCOUNT. A percentage reduction from a provider's usual and customary
rate for covered services and materials required under a participating provider agreement.
(2) COVERED MATERIALS. Materials for which reimbursement from the insurer or vision care plan
is provided to a vision care provider by an enrollee's plan contract, or for which a reimbursement
would be available but for the application of the enrollee's contractual limitations of deductibles,
copayments, or coinsurance. (3) COVERED SERVICES. Services for which reimbursement from the
insurer or vision care plan is provided to a vision care provider by an enrollee's plan contract,
or for which a reimbursement would be available but for the application of the enrollee's
contractual plan limitations of deductibles, copayments, or...
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34-5A-2
Section 34-5A-2 License requirements. (a) The unlicensed practice of behavior analysis
is prohibited in this state, unless exempted in subsection (c). (b) No person shall hold himself
or herself out to be a licensed behavior analyst or licensed assistant behavior analyst unless
he or she satisfies the applicable requirements of this chapter. (c) This chapter may not
be construed as prohibiting or restricting the practice of any of the following: (1) An individual
authorized to practice psychology within the state. (2) An applied behavior analysis direct
contact technician, or family member implementing a behavior analysis plan within the home
or other environment in which the person is located, who acts under the extended authority
and direction of a licensed behavior analyst or a licensed assistant behavior analyst. (3)
A behavior analyst who practices with nonhuman or nonpatient clients or consumers including,
but not limited to, applied animal behaviorists and practitioners of...
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34-24-290
Section 34-24-290 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words
and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) APPROVED PROGRAM. A program for the education
and training of assistants to physicians which has been formally approved in writing by the
board. (2) ASSISTANT TO PHYSICIAN. A person who is a graduate of an approved program, is licensed
by the board, and is registered by the board to perform medical services under the supervision
of a physician approved by the board to supervise the assistant. (3) BOARD. The Board of Medical
Examiners of the State of Alabama. (4) LEGEND DRUG. Any drug, medicine, chemical, or poison,
bearing on the label the words, "Caution, Federal Law prohibits dispensing without prescription"
or similar words indicating that the drug, medicine, chemical, or poison may be sold or dispensed
only upon the prescription of a licensed medical practitioner, except that the term legend
drug shall not include any drug, substance, or compound...
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38-4-1
Section 38-4-1 Persons to whom public assistance payable. (a) Generally. - Public assistance
shall be payable under this chapter to or on behalf of any person who is a needy blind person
within the requirements of this chapter, or is a needy person over the age of 65 years within
the requirements of this chapter, or is a dependent child within the requirements of this
chapter, or who is permanently and totally disabled within the requirements of this chapter.
No public assistance shall be payable under this chapter to or on behalf of any person who
is an inmate of a public institution; except, that such assistance may be payable to or on
behalf of persons who are patients in public institutions where such payments are matchable
under provisions of the Federal Social Security Act; provided, that the state department shall
not grant assistance to inmates of any institution, whether public or private, unless that
institution conforms to requirements under the provisions of the Federal...
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27-51-1
Section 27-51-1 Payment for services of licensed physician assistant. (a) An insurance
policy or contract providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses
shall include a provision for the payment to a supervising physician for necessary medical
or surgical services that are provided by a licensed physician assistant practicing under
the supervision of the physician, and pursuant to the rules, regulations, and parameters for
physician assistants, if the policy or contract pays for the same care and treatment provided
by a licensed physician or doctor of osteopathy. (b) An insurance policy or contract subject
to this section shall not impose a practice or supervision restriction which is inconsistent
with or more restrictive than provided by law. (c) This section shall apply to services
provided under a policy or contract delivered, continued, or renewed in this state on or after
August 1, 1997, and to any existing policy or contract, on the policy's or...
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