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22-21-300
Section 22-21-300 Disclosure of policies to patients. (a) As used in this section, the following
terms shall have the following meanings: (1) HOSPITAL. Any facility as defined in Section
22-21-20. (2) HOSPITAL BILL. A written statement provided to a patient after services are
rendered by the hospital describing the services and the payment due for those services. (3)
UNINSURED PATIENT. A person receiving care at a hospital who does not have any third party
source for payment of a hospital bill. (b)(1) Each hospital must make available written information
regarding its financial assistance policies. Each hospital bill or other summary of charges
to a patient shall include a statement that a patient who meets certain income criteria may
qualify for the financial assistance policy of the hospital. (2) Each hospital shall conspicuously
post a sign in the admission and registration areas of the hospital with the following notice:
"You may be eligible for financial assistance under the terms...
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30-8-1
Section 30-8-1 Membership in Alabama Network of Family Resource Centers. To become eligible
for membership in the Alabama Network of Family Resource Centers, a family resource center
located within the state shall provide evidence of achieving all of the following standards:
(1) Being in operation and delivering services to families for at least 15 consecutive calendar
months. (2) Having services consistent with the charter and values statement of the network,
consisting of a variety of community-based, nonsectarian, and nondiscriminatory services that
are available to all sectors of the community and have very limited eligibility requirements
for participation. The services shall target prevention-based comprehensive services that
strengthen and encourage greater self-sufficiency of family units. Services shall include,
but are not limited to, case management at the intake and assessment stages, parenting education,
emergency services, and early intervention services. (3) Having...
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34-26-62
Section 34-26-62 Duties - Supervisees. (a) A psychological technician supervisee shall perform
all of the following duties: (1) Enter into a written agreement with the supervisor, using
a board adopted supervision contract form, which details the obligations of the supervisee
as well as the responsibilities of the supervisor to the supervisee. This form shall be filed
with and accepted by the board prior to practice. (2) Attend scheduled supervision sessions.
(3) Provide the supervisor with a disclosure of psychological services being offered or rendered
by him or her. (4) Cooperate with the supervisor to assure that all conditions of the supervision
are fulfilled. (5) Provide the supervisor with information necessary for the supervisor to
advise him or her on cases presenting professional, ethical, or legal concerns. (6) File a
revised supervision contract form within 45 days of a change in the conditions specified in
the supervision contract form on file with the board. (7) Obtain a...
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34-9-18
Section 34-9-18 Grounds for disciplinary action. (a) The board may invoke disciplinary action
as outlined in subsection (b) whenever it shall be established to the satisfaction of the
board, after a hearing as hereinafter provided, that any dentist or dental hygienist has been
guilty of the following: (1) Fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation in obtaining any license,
license certificate, annual registration certificate, money, or other thing of value. (2)
Gross immorality. (3) Is a menace to the public health or to patients or others by reason
of a disease. (4) Is an habitual user of intoxicants or drugs rendering him or her unfit for
the practice of dentistry or dental hygiene. (5) Has been convicted for violation of federal
or state narcotics or barbiturate laws. (6) Is guilty of negligence or gross negligence. a.
For the purposes of this subdivision, negligence is defined as the failure to do what a reasonably
prudent dentist or dental hygienist would have done under the same or...
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22-21-7
Section 22-21-7 Itemized statement of services rendered to be furnished patient upon request;
provisions of statement; itemization of services and expenses; action by Attorney General;
payment of claims by insurance companies. (a) For the purposes of this section, the term "hospital"
shall mean any hospital in which human patients are given medical care. It shall include all
emergency rooms or outpatient facilities connected thereto. (b) Within 10 days following discharge
or release from confinement in a hospital or nursing home, or within 10 days after the earliest
date at which the expense from the confinement or service may be determined, which in the
case of long-term confinement may be the monthly charge, the hospital or nursing home providing
the service shall submit to the patient, or to his survivor or legal guardian as may be appropriate,
upon written request, an itemized statement detailing in language comprehensible to an ordinary
layman the specific nature of charges or...
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34-26-1
Section 34-26-1 Practice as "psychologist" and "psychological technician"
defined. (a) For the purposes of this chapter, the two levels of psychological practice are
as follows: (1) Psychologist. (2) Psychological technician. (b)(1) A person practices as a
psychologist within the meaning of this chapter when he or she holds himself or herself out
to be a psychologist or renders to individuals or to the public for remuneration any service
involving the application of recognized principles, methods, and procedures of the science
and profession of psychology, such as interviewing or administering and interpreting tests
of mental abilities, aptitudes, interests, and personality characteristics for such purposes
as psychological evaluation or for such purposes as overall personality appraisal or classification,
or treatment. The practice of psychologists specifically includes the use of projective assessment
techniques, the diagnosis of mental disorders, and psychotherapy. (2) Nothing in...
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22-21-293
Section 22-21-293 Financial responsibility for out-of-county indigent patients treated at a
regional referral hospital. Ultimate financial responsibility for treatment received at a
regional referral hospital by a certified indigent patient, who is a resident of the State
of Alabama but is not a resident of the county in which the regional referral hospital is
located, shall be the obligation of the county of which the certified indigent patient is
a resident. A county's annual financial responsibility for each of its resident certified
indigent patients receiving treatment at a regional referral hospital shall be limited to
payment for 30 days or the number of days of services allowed per annum for the care of Medicaid
patients through the State Medicaid Program at the time of the patient's hospitalization,
whichever shall be less, at the per diem reimbursement rate currently in effect for the regional
referral hospital under the medical assistance program for the needy under Title...
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27-20A-1
Section 27-20A-1 Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this chapter, and others
evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication otherwise,
be given the following respective interpretations herein: (1) ALCOHOLISM. A chronic disorder
or illness in which the individual is unable, for psychological or physical reasons, or both,
to refrain from the frequent consumption of alcohol in quantities sufficient to produce intoxication
and, ultimately, injury to health and effective functioning. (2) DETOXIFICATION. Supervised
physical withdrawal from alcohol. (3) INPATIENT TREATMENT FOR ALCOHOLISM. Care provided in
a licensed hospital and is normally limited to detoxification where severe medical or psychiatric
complications are present or may be anticipated. (4) SHORT TERM RESIDENTIAL ALCOHOLISM TREATMENT
FACILITY. A state certified facility which provides structured programs of intensive treatment
services for people addicted to alcohol....
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34-32-6
Section 34-32-6 Persons exempt from chapter. The following persons shall be exempt from the
provisions of this chapter: (1) Any person not a resident of and having no established place
of business in this state, practicing or offering to practice herein the profession of soil
classifier when such practice does not exceed a total of 30 days in any calendar year, provided
such person is legally qualified by registration to practice the profession in his or her
own state or country in which the requirements and qualifications for obtaining registration
are not lower than those specified in this chapter. (2) Any person not a resident of and having
no established place of business in this state, or who has recently become a resident thereof,
practicing or offering to practice herein for more than 30 days in any calendar year the profession
of soil classifier, if he or she shall have filed with the board an application for registration
and shall have paid the fee required by this chapter....
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36-14-19
Section 36-14-19 Electronic recordation process for business entity filings. (a) The Secretary
of State shall develop a program to facilitate the administration of an electronic process
for the recordation of filing activities by business and nonprofit entities required under
Title 10A. A county may participate in the program in accordance with this section. Under
the program, the Secretary of State may contract with a vendor to provide electronic processing
services which may include, but are not limited to, the online filing of forms, online recording,
payment of fees through credit or debit cards, and any other service related to the administration
of the electronic process, as determined by the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State
may also develop a certification process to allow third parties to provide these electronic
processing services. All recording fees, whether established by general law, general law of
local application, or local law, shall be collected by the vendor...
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