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22-21-53
Section 22-21-53 Powers. (a) Any district or regional hospital association is hereby authorized
and empowered to exercise the following powers in addition to others granted in this article:
(1) To cooperate with the State Board of Health for the purpose of constructing, equipping,
maintaining and operating a hospital by making appropriate application to the State Board
of Health; to enter into a cooperative contract with the State Board of Health for this purpose;
(2) To act as an agent for the State Board of Health under a cooperative contract to prepare,
carry out and operate hospital projects; (3) To provide for the construction, reconstruction,
improvement, alteration or repair of any hospital, or any part thereof; (4) To take over,
by purchase, lease or otherwise, any hospital; (5) To manage, as agent of the State Board
of Health, any hospital constructed or owned by the association; (6) To arrange, with any
appropriate local or state agencies, for the opening or closing of...
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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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22-6-122
Section 22-6-122 Medicaid Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee - Classification and recommendation
of drugs; assurance of quality patient care; review of pharmaceutical products. (a) The Medicaid
Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee shall review and recommend classes of drugs to the Medicaid
Commissioner for inclusion in the Medicaid Preferred Drug Plan. Class means a therapeutic
group of pharmaceutical agents approved by the FDA as defined by the American Hospital Formulary
Service. The classes of anti-retroviral and anti-psychotic drugs shall not be included in
the Medicaid Preferred Drug Plan. (b) The Medicaid Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee shall
develop its preferred drug list recommendations by considering the clinical efficacy, safety,
and cost effectiveness of a product. Within each covered class, the committee shall review
and recommend drugs to the Medicaid Commissioner for inclusion on a preferred drug list. Generics
and over the counter drugs covered by Medicaid may be...
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27-42-12
Section 27-42-12 Exhaustion of rights; nonduplication of recovery. (a) Any person having a
claim under an insurance policy, whether or not it is a policy issued by a member insurer,
where the claim under the other policy arises from the same facts, injury, or loss that gave
rise to the covered claim against the association, shall be required first to exhaust all
coverage provided by any such policy. Any amount payable on a covered claim under this chapter
shall be reduced by the full applicable limits stated in the other insurance policy and the
association shall receive a full credit for the stated limits, or, where there are no applicable
stated limits, the claim shall be reduced by the total recovery. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
no person shall be required to exhaust any right under the policy of an insolvent insurer.
(1) A claim under a policy providing liability coverage to a person who may be jointly and
severally liable with, or a joint tortfeasor with, the person covered...
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27-53-1
Section 27-53-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) GENETIC CHARACTERISTICS. A scientifically or medically identifiable gene or
chromosome, or alteration thereof, that is known to be a cause of a disease or disorder, or
determined to be associated with a statistically increased risk of development of a disease
or disorder. (2) GENETIC TEST. A pre-symptomatic laboratory test which is generally accepted
in the scientific and medical communities for the determination of the presence or absence
of the genetic characteristics that cause or are associated with risk of a disease or disorder.
(3) HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN. A health insurance policy, including a self-insured health plan,
that covers hospital, medical, or surgical expenses, health maintenance organizations, preferred
provider organizations, medical service organizations, physician-hospital organizations, or
any other person, firm, corporation, joint venture, or other similar...
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34-24-210.1
Section 34-24-210.1 Evaluation and treatment by physical therapist. (a) Without prescription
or referral, a licensed physical therapist may perform an initial evaluation or consultation
of a screening nature to determine the need for physical therapy and may perform the physical
therapy and other services provided in subdivisions (1) to (5), inclusive, of subsection (b).
Implementation of physical therapy shall otherwise be based on the referral of a person licensed
to practice medicine, surgery, dentistry, chiropractic, licensed assistant to a physician
acting pursuant to a valid supervising agreement, or a licensed certified registered nurse
practitioner in a valid collaborative practice agreement with a licensed physician. (b) The
physical therapy and other services referred to in subsection (a), which may be performed
without prescription or referral, include and are limited to the following: (1) To a child
with a diagnosed developmental disability pursuant to the plan of care for...
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37-2-61
Section 37-2-61 Claim for damages. (a) When any property, chattels, or goods have been received
by any transportation company for transportation, and such goods, chattels, or property shall
be lost, destroyed or injured, or shall not be delivered according to the contract of shipment,
the shipper, consignor, consignee, or other person entitled to demand and receive them shall
make out an itemized statement of the goods, property or chattels so lost, destroyed or injured,
or not delivered, setting forth the kind of articles, and the number thereof, and the value
and the extent or amount of damages, and shall, after making, subscribing and swearing to
the same before an officer authorized to administer an oath, deliver the same to the said
transportation company, agent, or officer of said transportation company so receiving said
shipment within 60 days after said loss, destruction, injury, or failure to deliver such goods,
property or chattels. (b) When such verified statement of such...
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12-21-5
Section 12-21-5 Copy of hospital records - Admissibility. When the original would be admissible
in any case or proceeding in a court in the state, a certified copy of the hospital records
of any hospital organized or operated under or pursuant to the laws of Alabama, including
records of admission, medical, hospital, occupational, disease, injury and disability histories,
temperature and other charts, X rays and written interpretations thereof, pictures, photographs,
files, written orders, directions, findings and reports and interpretations of physicians,
doctors, surgeons, pathologists, radiologists, specialists, dentists, technicians and nurses,
as well as of all employees of such hospital, forming a part of such hospital records as to
the health, condition, state, injuries, sickness, disease, mental, physical and nervous disorders,
duration and character of disabilities, diagnosis, prognosis, progress, wounds, cuts, contusions,
lacerations, breaks, loss of blood, incisions,...
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22-21-170
Section 22-21-170 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, unless otherwise indicated,
the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) CORPORATION. A corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of this article. (2) COUNTY.
Any county in this state. (3) MEMBER. The county that is a member of a corporation organized
pursuant to the provisions of this article and each municipality that is at the time a member
of such corporation. (4) SECURITIES. Notes, bonds, certificates of indebtedness, warrants
or other evidences of indebtedness. (5) HOSPITAL. Such term includes the plural as well as
the singular and means any one or more of buildings or facilities which serve to promote the
public health, either by providing places or facilities for the diagnosis, treatment, cure
or convalescence of sick, injured, mentally ill or disturbed persons, or for the prevention
of sickness and disease, or for the care, treatment and rehabilitation of...
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22-21-8
Section 22-21-8 Confidentiality of accreditation, quality assurance credentialling materials,
etc. (a) Accreditation, quality assurance and similar materials as used in this section shall
include written reports, records, correspondence, and materials concerning the accreditation
or quality assurance or similar function of any hospital, clinic, or medical staff. The confidentiality
established by this section shall apply to materials prepared by an employee, advisor, or
consultant of a hospital, clinic, or medical staff and to materials prepared by an employee,
advisor or consultant of an accrediting, quality assurance or similar agency or similar body
and to any individual who is an employee, advisor or consultant of a hospital, clinic, medical
staff or accrediting, quality assurance or similar agency or body. (b) All accreditation,
quality assurance credentialling and similar materials shall be held in confidence and shall
not be subject to discovery or introduction in evidence in...
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