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6-5-551
Section 6-5-551 Complaint to detail circumstances rendering provider liable; discovery. In
any action for injury, damages, or wrongful death, whether in contract or in tort, against
a health care provider for breach of the standard of care, whether resulting from acts or
omissions in providing health care, or the hiring, training, supervision, retention, or termination
of care givers, the Alabama Medical Liability Act shall govern the parameters of discovery
and all aspects of the action. The plaintiff shall include in the complaint filed in the action
a detailed specification and factual description of each act and omission alleged by plaintiff
to render the health care provider liable to plaintiff and shall include when feasible and
ascertainable the date, time, and place of the act or acts. The plaintiff shall amend his
complaint timely upon ascertainment of new or different acts or omissions upon which his claim
is based; provided, however, that any such amendment must be made at...
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27-26-1
Section 27-26-1 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases
shall have the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) MEDICAL PRACTITIONER. Anyone
licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in the State of Alabama, engaged in such practice,
and shall include medical professional corporations, associations, and partnerships. (2) DENTAL
PRACTITIONER. Anyone licensed to practice dentistry in the State of Alabama, engaged in such
practice, and such term includes professional dental corporations, associations, and partnerships.
(3) MEDICAL INSTITUTION. Any licensed hospital, or any physicians' or dentists' offices or
clinics containing facilities for the examination, diagnosis, treatment, or care of human
illnesses. (4) PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION. Any medical or dental professional corporation or
any medical or dental professional association. (5) PHYSICIAN. Any person licensed to practice
medicine in Alabama. (6) DENTIST. Any person licensed to practice...
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6-5-481
Section 6-5-481 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) MEDICAL PRACTITIONER. Anyone
licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in the State of Alabama, engaged in such practice,
including medical professional corporations, associations, and partnerships. (2) DENTAL PRACTITIONER.
Anyone licensed to practice dentistry in the State of Alabama, engaged in such practice, including
professional dental corporations, associations, and partnerships. (3) MEDICAL INSTITUTION.
Any licensed hospital, or any physician's or dentist's office or clinic containing facilities
for the examination, diagnosis, treatment, or care of human illnesses. (4) PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION.
Any medical or dental professional corporation or any medical or dental professional association.
(5) PHYSICIAN. Any person licensed to practice medicine in Alabama. (6) DENTIST. Any person
licensed to practice dentistry in...
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34-24-59
Section 34-24-59 Reporting of physician disciplinary actions. (a) The chief administrative
officer of each hospital shall report to the Alabama State Board of Medical Examiners any
disciplinary action taken concerning any physician when the action is related to professional
ethics, negligence, or incompetence in the practice of medicine, moral turpitude, sexual misconduct,
abusive or disruptive behavior, or drug or alcohol abuse. Disciplinary action shall include
termination, revocation, probation, restriction, denial, failure to renew, suspension, reduction,
or resignation of hospital privileges for any of the above reasons. The report shall be in
writing and be made within 30 days of the date of the initial action. Failure on the part
of a chief administrative officer of a hospital to file a report required under this section
shall be a violation of Section 22-21-25(b)(3), and the State Board of Health may, in its
discretion, impose upon the hospital found to be in violation, a civil...
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22-5C-2
Section 22-5C-2 State Advisory Council on Palliative Care and Quality of Life. (a) Not later
than November 23, 2015, the State Health Department shall establish a State Advisory Council
on Palliative Care and Quality of Life within the department. (b) The council membership shall
be appointed by the State Health Officer and shall include interdisciplinary palliative care
medical, nursing, social work, pharmacy, and spiritual professional expertise; patient and
family caregiver advocate representation, and any other relevant appointees the State Health
Officer determines appropriate. The State Health Officer shall consider the racial, gender,
geographic, urban/rural, and economic diversity of the state when appointing members. Membership
shall specifically include health professionals having palliative care work experience or
expertise in palliative care delivery models in a variety of inpatient, outpatient, and community
settings such as acute care, long-term care, and hospice and with...
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22-5C-3
Section 22-5C-3 Palliative Care Information and Education Program. (a) There is created a statewide
Palliative Care Information and Education Program in the State Health Department. The purpose
of the palliative care information and education program is to maximize the effectiveness
of palliative care initiatives in the state by ensuring that comprehensive and accurate information
and education about palliative care is available to the public, health care providers, and
health care facilities. The department shall publish on its website information and resources,
including links to external resources, about palliative care for the public, health care providers,
and health care facilities. This information shall include, but not be limited to, continuing
educational opportunities for health care providers; information about palliative care delivery
in the home and in other primary, secondary, and tertiary environments; and consumer educational
materials and referral information for...
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40-26B-2
Section 40-26B-2 Privilege tax upon providers of pharmaceutical services; exceptions. To provide
further for the availability of indigent health care, the operation of the Medicaid Program
and the maintenance and expansion of medical services thereunder, there is hereby levied and
shall be collected as provided in this article a privilege tax on the business activities
of every provider of pharmaceutical services to the citizens of Alabama, except for a pharmacy,
or portion thereof, serving hospital inpatients or pharmacies owned or operated by the State
of Alabama or an agency thereof. The privilege tax imposed by this article is in addition
to all other taxes of any kind now imposed by law, and shall be at the rate of 10 cents for
each prescription filled or refilled for a citizen of Alabama. (Acts 1991, No. 91-124, p.
148, §2; Act 2002-414, p. 1058, §1.)...
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6-5-662
Section 6-5-662 Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following words shall have the
following meanings: (1) ESTABLISHED FREE MEDICAL CLINIC. An organized community-based program
providing medical care, without charge to individuals unable to pay for it, and which is limited
to care that does not require the services of a licensed hospital or ambulatory surgical center,
and care that does not include the use of general anesthesia or require an overnight stay
in a health care facility. (2) MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL. A person licensed by the Alabama Medical
Licensure Commission established under Section 34-24-310, or licensed to practice the treatment
of human ailments in any other state or territory of the United States; or a person licensed
by the Alabama Board of Nursing established under Section 34-21-2; or a person licensed by
the Board of Chiropractic Examiners established under Section 34-24-140; or a person licensed
by the Alabama Board of Optometry established under Section...
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34-14C-5
Section 34-14C-5 Exemptions. The licensure requirements of this chapter do not apply to the
following entities or practitioners: (1) Home health agencies certified by the State of Alabama
to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. (2) Hospital based home medical equipment
services, whether or not the services are provided through a separate corporation or other
business entity. (3) Health care practitioners legally eligible to order or prescribe home
medical equipment, or who use home medical equipment to treat patients in locations other
than the patient's residence, including, but not limited to, physicians, nurses, physical
therapists, respiratory therapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists, optometrists,
chiropractors, and podiatrists, except for those practitioners, other than a licensed physician
practicing medicine, who provide home medical equipment services in a patient's residence.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting or restricting...
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22-6-220
Section 22-6-220 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words shall have
the following meanings: (1) CAPITATION PAYMENT. A payment the state Medicaid Agency makes
periodically to the integrated care network on behalf of each recipient enrolled under a contract
for the provision of medical services pursuant to this article. (2) COLLABORATOR. A private
health carrier, third party purchaser, provider, health care center, health care facility,
state and local governmental entity, or other public payers, corporations, individuals, and
consumers who are expecting to collectively cooperate, negotiate, or contract with another
collaborator, or integrated care network in the health care system. (3) INTEGRATED CARE NETWORK.
One or more statewide organizations of health care providers, with offices in each regional
care organization region, that contracts with the Medicaid Agency to provide Medicaid benefits
to certain Medicaid beneficiaries as defined in subdivision (4) and...
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