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22-6-233
Section 22-6-233 Legislative findings; certification of collaborators; powers of Medicaid Agency;
state action immunity. (a) The Legislature declares that collaboration among public payers,
private health carriers, third party purchasers, and providers to identify appropriate service
delivery systems and reimbursement methods in order to align incentives in support of integrated
and coordinated health care delivery is in the best interest of the public. Collaboration
pursuant to this article is to provide quality health care at the lowest possible cost to
Alabama citizens who are Medicaid eligible. The Legislature, therefore, declares that this
health care delivery system affirmatively contemplates the foreseeable displacement of competition,
such that any anti-competitive effect may be attributed to the state's policy to displace
competition in the delivery of a coordinated system of health care for the public benefit.
In furtherance of this goal, the Legislature declares its intent...
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22-6-6.1
Section 22-6-6.1 Assignment to state of recipients' rights to payments for medical care; authorization
to release needed information. (a) Every recipient of medical assistance under the Alabama
Medicaid Program shall be deemed to have made assignment to the State of Alabama of any and
all rights of his to medical support or payments for medical care from any person, firm or
corporation, together with the rights of any other individuals eligible for medical assistance
for whom he can legally make assignment. This assignment shall be effective to the extent
of the amount of medical assistance actually paid by the Medicaid Agency. The recipient shall
cooperate fully with the Medicaid Agency in its efforts to secure such rights, and shall execute
and deliver all instruments and papers needed by the Medicaid Agency in this regard. (b) Every
recipient of medical assistance under the Alabama Medicaid Program shall be deemed to have
authorized all third parties, including insurance companies...
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29-2-103
Section 29-2-103 Oversight committee - Duties. It shall be the duty of the committee to study
and review the criteria for placing and keeping children in state care, to review the criteria
for selection of child care providers by state agencies, to review the minimum base pay and
distribution of funds for providers, to identify an accountability process for providers,
to review the quality of care provided to children by state agencies, to identify an accountability
process for state agencies involved in children's services, to review the availability of
special services to meet the individual needs of children in state care, to gather input from
service providers, state agencies, and children receiving state services concerning their
experiences, concerns, and recommendations, and to coordinate the activities of the council.
(Act 98-612, p. 1347, §4.)...
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36-21-14
Section 36-21-14 Communications by emergency responders with peer support members. (a) As used
in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CERTIFIED PEER
SUPPORT MEMBER. A law enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic, emergency dispatcher, emergency
medical technician of an emergency service agency or entity, or a person who is assigned to
be a chaplain by an emergency service agency, who has received training in critical incident
stress management and who is certified as a peer support member by the Alabama State Law Enforcement
Agency to provide emotional and moral support to an emergency responder who needs emotional
or moral support as a result of job-related stress or an incident in which the emergency responder
was involved while acting in his or her official capacity. (2) EMERGENCY RESPONDER. A law
enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic, emergency dispatcher, or emergency medical technician
of an emergency service agency or entity. (3)...
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22-13A-5
Section 22-13A-5 Needs assessment; list of services and providers. (a) The department shall
conduct a needs assessment to identify any or all of the following: (1) Research being conducted
within the state. (2) Available technical assistance and educational materials and programs
nationwide. (3) The level of public and professional awareness about osteoporosis. (4) The
needs of osteoporosis patients, their families, and caregivers. (5) Needs of health care providers,
including physicians, nurses, managed care organizations, and other health care providers.
(6) The services available to the osteoporosis patient. (7) Existence of osteoporosis treatment
programs. (8) Existence of osteoporosis support groups. (9) Existence of rehabilitation services.
(10) The number and location of bone density testing equipment. (b) Based on the needs assessment,
the department shall develop and maintain a list of osteoporosis-related services and osteoporosis
health care providers with specialization in...
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22-8B-3
Section 22-8B-3 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) AID IN DYING. The act of a person providing the means or manner for another
person to be able to commit suicide, with actual knowledge that the person deliberately intends
on committing suicide by that means or manner. (2) ARTIFICIALLY PROVIDED NUTRITIONAL HYDRATION.
A medical treatment consisting of the administration of food and water through a tube or intravenous
line, where the recipient is not required to chew or swallow voluntarily. Artificially provided
nutrition and hydration does not include assisted feeding, such as spoon or bottle feeding.
(3) DELIBERATELY. More than knowing the consequences of an act or action; meaning to consider
carefully; done on purpose; intentional; requiring premeditation; with intent to cause the
death of a person. (4) HEALTH CARE PROVIDER. Any individual who may be asked to participate
in any way in a health care service, including, but...
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45-49A-81.10
Section 45-49A-81.10 Pension eligibility for certain employees - 20 years of service. (a) Any
employee of the City of Prichard, except as herein otherwise provided, who has been in the
service of the city for as long as 20 years, the last four years of which, counting a major
fraction of a year as a full year, have been continuous, and who is then employed by the city,
upon his or her making application to the city council of the city, shall be retired from
service as an employee without medical examination or disability. Any employee who has been
in the service of the city for as long as 20 years, the last four years of which, counting
a major fraction of a year as a full year, have been continuous, and whose employment has
been terminated prior to his or her making application for retirement from service as an employee
of the city shall be entitled to make application for retirement as an employee without medical
examination or disability as if he or she were yet an employee of the...
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27-19A-12
Section 27-19A-12 Dental services - Coverages; fees; exceptions. (a) As used in this section,
the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COVERED PERSON. Any individual,
family, or family member on whose behalf third-party payment or prepayment of health or medical
expenses is provided under an insurance policy, plan, or contract providing for third-party
payment or prepayment of health care or medical expenses. (2) COVERED SERVICES. Dental care
services for which a reimbursement is available under an enrollee's plan contract, or for
which a reimbursement would be available but for the application of contractual limitations
such as deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, waiting periods, annual or lifetime maximums,
frequency limitations, alternative benefit payments, or any other limitation. (3) DENTAL CARE
PROVIDER. A licensed dentist. (4) DENTAL PLAN. Includes any policy of insurance which is issued
by a health care service contractor which provides for coverage of...
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27-56-2
Section 27-56-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) COVERED PERSON. Any individual, family, or family member on whose behalf third-party
payment or prepayment of health or medical expenses is provided under an insurance policy,
plan, or contract providing for third-party payment or prepayment of health care or medical
expenses. (2) EYE CARE PROVIDER. A licensed optometrist or a licensed ophthalmologist. (3)
INSURANCE POLICY, PLAN, OR CONTRACT PROVIDING FOR THIRD-PARTY PAYMENT OR PREPAYMENT OF HEALTH
OR MEDICAL EXPENSES. Includes an individual or group policy for accident or health insurance,
an individual or group hospital or health care service contract, an individual or group health
maintenance organization contract, an organized delivery system contract, or a preferred provider
organization contract, and any other similar policy, plan, or contract. This term shall not
include any employee welfare benefit plan, as defined...
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38-5-5
Section 38-5-5 Aid inalienable; cost of hospitalization, medical care, etc., not to constitute
a lien on property of recipient. All aid given as public assistance for the blind shall be
absolutely inalienable by any assignment, sale, attachment, execution or otherwise; and, in
case of bankruptcy, the assistance shall not pass through any trustee or other person acting
on behalf of creditors. The cost of hospitalization or other medical care or other service
furnished by the state or by a county to a recipient of assistance under this chapter shall
not constitute a lien upon any real or personal property or personal effects of such recipient.
(Acts 1963, No. 574, p. 1195, §5.)...
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