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22-6-150
Section 22-6-150 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words shall have
the following meanings: (1) ALTERNATE CARE PROVIDER. A contractor, other than a regional care
organization, that agrees to provide a comprehensive package of Medicaid benefits to Medicaid
beneficiaries in a defined region of the state pursuant to a risk contract. (2) CAPITATION
PAYMENT. A payment the state Medicaid Agency makes periodically to a contractor on behalf
of each recipient enrolled under a contract for the provision of medical services. (3) CARE
DELIVERY SYSTEM. The manner in which the benefits and services set forth in the state Medicaid
plan are provided to Medicaid beneficiaries. (4) 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...
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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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22-6-163
Section 22-6-163 Legislative findings; rules; collaboration; approval of agreements and contracts;
state action immunity; confidentiality of records; additional duties. (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...
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41-23-253
Section 41-23-253 Research and development enhancement grant program; fund. (a) The Director
of ADECA may establish and administer the research and development enhancement grant program
for the purpose of encouraging new and continuing efforts to conduct new or expanded research
and development activities within Alabama. By September 4, 2019, the director shall adopt
rules and policies to administer the program and begin to accept applications for grants,
and shall adopt such rules as may be necessary to meet the future needs of the grant program.
(b) The program shall be administered pursuant to policies developed by ADECA in compliance
with this article. The policies shall provide for the awarding of grants to Alabama research
entities that have qualified research expenses in Alabama in a fiscal year exceeding a base
amount. (c) The Alabama Research and Development Enhancement Fund is created in the State
Treasury. The fund is subject to appropriations by the Legislature and gifts,...
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31-9-40
Section 31-9-40 Compact adopted and enacted. The Emergency Management Assistance Compact is
enacted into law and entered with all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form
substantially as follows: THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE COMPACT Article I - Purpose
and Authorities. This compact is made and entered into by and between the participating member
states which enact this compact, hereinafter called party states. For the purpose of this
agreement, the term "states" is taken to mean the several states, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territorial possessions. The purpose
of this compact is to provide for mutual assistance between the states entering into this
compact in managing any emergency or disaster that is duly declared by the governor of the
affected state or states, whether arising from natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made
disaster, civil emergency aspects of resources shortages, community disorders,...
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45-41-83.12
Section 45-41-83.12 Drug court coordinator; meetings of drug court team; transfer of participants.
(a) Specifically with a drug court program, the board shall hire or contract for an individual
as the drug court coordinator. The drug court coordinator shall be responsible for the general
administration of drug court, with the assistance of the drug court team. The drug court team,
when practicable, shall conduct a meeting prior to each drug court session to discuss and
provide updated information regarding persons who have applied to participate in the program
and regarding persons who are participating in the program. The drug court team shall make
a determination as to the progress of each participant and shall agree on the appropriate
incentive or sanction to be applied to each participant in accordance with the program rules,
policy, and procedure. If the drug court team cannot agree on the appropriate action, the
court shall make the decision based upon information presented in...
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34-21-126
Section 34-21-126 Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators. (a) The
party states hereby create and establish a joint public entity known as the Interstate Commission
of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators. (1) The commission is an instrumentality of the
party states. (2) Venue is proper, and judicial proceedings by or against the commission shall
be brought solely and exclusively, in a court of competent jurisdiction where the principal
office of the commission is located. The commission may waive venue and jurisdictional defenses
to the extent the commission adopts or consents to participate in alternative dispute resolution
proceedings. (3) Nothing in this compact shall be construed to be a waiver of sovereign immunity.
(b) Membership, voting, and meetings. (1) Each party state shall have and be limited to one
administrator. The head of the state licensing board for each party state, or his or her designee,
shall be the administrator of this compact for that...
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16-33C-7
Section 16-33C-7 PACT contracts. (a) Each PACT contract shall include, but shall not be limited
to, the following terms: (1) The amount and the number of contract payments required from
a purchaser on behalf of a designated beneficiary. (2) The terms and conditions under which
purchasers shall remit contract payments, including, but not limited to, the date or dates
upon which each contract payment shall be due. (3) Provisions for late payment charges and
for default. (4) Provisions for withdrawal from the PACT Program, including refunds and any
penalty therefor. (5) The name and date of birth of the designated beneficiary on whose behalf
a contract is drawn. (6) Terms and conditions under which another person may be subsequently
substituted for the designated beneficiary originally named. (7) The name of the person entitled
to terminate the PACT contract, the terms and conditions under which a PACT contract may be
terminated, and the name of the person entitled to any refund due as a...
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27-14-11.1
Section 27-14-11.1 Contents of policies - Denial or reduction of benefits due to Medicaid eligibility
void. (a) For purposes of this section, "private insurer" is defined as any of the
following: (1) Any commercial insurance company offering health or casualty insurance to individuals
or groups, including both experience-rated contracts and indemnity contracts. (2) Any profit
or nonprofit prepaid plan offering either medical services or full or partial payment for
the diagnosis or treatment of an injury, disease, or disability. (3) Any organization administering
health or casualty insurance plans for professional associations, unions, fraternal groups,
employer-employee benefit plans, and any similar organization offering these payments or services,
including self-insured and self-funded plans. (4) Any health insurer, including group health
plans, as defined in Section 607(1) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
self-insured plans, service benefit plans, managed care...
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33-18-1
Section 33-18-1 Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact. The State of Alabama hereby agrees
to the following interstate compact known as the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact:
Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact The States of Alabama and Georgia and the United
States of America hereby agree to the following compact which shall become effective upon
enactment of concurrent legislation by each respective state legislature and the Congress
of the United States. Short Title This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa
River Basin Compact" and shall be referred to hereafter in this document as the "ACT
Compact" or "compact." Article I Compact Purposes This compact among the States
of Alabama and Georgia and the United States of America has been entered into for the purposes
of promoting interstate comity, removing causes of present and future controversies, equitably
apportioning the surface waters of the ACT, engaging in water planning,...
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