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25-5-293
Section 25-5-293 Duties of secretary; continuing education, accounting; recovery of expenses;
advisory committees; legislative intent regarding reimbursements. (a) The Secretary of the
Department of Labor may prescribe rules and regulations for the purpose of conducting continuing
education seminars for all personnel associated with workers' compensation claims and collect
registration fees in order to cover the related expenditures. The secretary may adopt rules
and regulations setting continuing education standards for workers' compensation claims personnel
employed by insurance companies and self-insured employers and groups. (b) The secretary shall
file annually with the Governor and the presiding officer of each house of the Legislature
a complete and detailed written report accounting for all funds received and disbursed during
the preceding fiscal year. The annual report shall be in the form and reported in the time
provided by law. (c) The secretary shall establish reasonable...
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34-25A-3
Section 34-25A-3 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) ACCREDITED FACILITY. A facility where prosthetic, orthotic, prosthetic and orthotic,
or pedorthic care is provided to patients needing such care and has met the requirements of
the board for such designation. The board shall require that all accredited facilities meet
the requirements of a national certifying board, recognized by the state board in prosthetics,
orthotics, and pedorthics accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA)
in the discipline or disciplines for which the application is made and meet any other requirements
of the board. The requirements may include custom and non-custom items the board may determine
are necessary to perform quality care and are typical in the course of business. (2) ACCREDITED
PEDORTHIC FACILITY. A facility where pedorthic care may be provided that has met the requirements
of the board for such designation. An...
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25-4-10
Section 25-4-10 Employment. (a) Subject to other provisions of this chapter, "employment"
means: (1) Any service performed prior to January 1, 1978, which was employment as defined
in this section prior to such date and, subject to the other provisions of this section, services
performed for remuneration after December 31, 1977, including service in interstate commerce,
by: a. Any officer of a corporation; or b. Any individual who, under the usual common law
rules applicable in determining the employer-employee relationship, has the status of an employee;
or c. Any individual other than an individual who is an employee under paragraphs a. or b.
of this subdivision (1) who performs services for remuneration for any person: 1. As an agent-driver
or commission-driver engaged in distributing meat products, bakery products, beverages (other
than milk) or laundry or dry cleaning services for a principal; 2. As a traveling or city
salesman engaged upon a full-time basis in the solicitation on...
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22-21-266
Section 22-21-266 Certificates of need - Required findings for inpatient facilities. No certificate
of need for new inpatient facilities or services shall be issued unless the SHPDA makes each
of the following findings: (1) That the proposed facility or service is consistent with the
latest approved revision of the appropriate state plan effective at the time the application
was received by the state agency; (2) That less costly, more efficient or more appropriate
alternatives to such inpatient service are not available, and that the development of such
alternatives has been studied and found not practicable; (3) That existing inpatient facilities
providing inpatient services similar to those proposed are being used in an appropriate and
efficient manner consistent with community demands for services; (4) That in the case of new
construction, alternatives to new construction (e.g., modernization and sharing arrangement)
have been considered and have been implemented to the maximum...
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22-4-39
Section 22-4-39 Use of information. (a) SHPDA shall utilize the data and information received
from covered health care reporters for the benefit of the public and public officials. The
data and information obtained by SHPDA pursuant to this article, including a summary, shall
be reported to the SHCC and the Certificate of Need Review Board at least annually. (b) SHPDA
shall follow the advice and guidance of the Health Care Information and Data Council as to
what reports, publications, or studies may be compiled using the data required to be collected
in this article. (c) All approved reports, publications, or studies prepared by SHPDA shall
be public records and shall be made available to the public for a reasonable fee. (d) Covered
health care reports from individual providers shall continue to be available to the public
and the SHPDA may charge a reasonable fee for copies of these reports. (Act 2015-471, §10.)...
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22-21-261
Section 22-21-261 Legislative findings; purpose of article. The Legislature of the State of
Alabama declares that it is the public policy of the State of Alabama that a certificate of
need program be administered in the state to assure that only those health care services and
facilities found to be in the public interest shall be offered or developed in the state.
It is the purpose of the Legislature in enacting this article to prevent the construction
of unnecessary and inappropriate health care facilities through a system of mandatory reviews
of new institutional health services, as the same are defined in this article. (Acts 1977,
1st Ex. Sess., No. 82, p. 1509, §1; Acts 1982, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 82-770, p. 249, §2.)...
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22-4-37
Section 22-4-37 Penalties for noncompliance. SHPDA shall impose an administrative penalty against
a covered health care reporter that fails to comply with this article in an amount not to
exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) if the covered health care reporter is a rural health
care provider or ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for all covered health care reporters and
the covered health care reporter may not participate in the Certificate of Need review process
either as an applicant for a Certificate of Need or in opposition to a Certificate of Need
application until the covered health care reporter is in compliance with this article. By
June 11, 2016, SHPDA, following advice and guidance from the Health Care Information and Data
Council, shall adopt rules pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act necessary to implement
this section. (Act 2015-471, §8.)...
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31-9B-3
Section 31-9B-3 Providing of information; requirements for emergency and disaster planning
provisions; immunity. (a) All appropriate agencies and community-based service providers,
including, but not limited to, home health care providers, hospices, community mental health
centers, and related facilities, but not including health care facilities which provide inpatient
care to include general and specialized hospitals including ancillary services, skilled nursing
facilities, intermediate care facilities, or any assisted living facility, shall provide information
on the number of individuals with medical needs and shall assist the State Health Department
in the establishment of programs to increase the awareness of medical needs shelters, and
in educating clients and sponsors or caregivers about the procedures that may be necessary
for their safety during disasters. (b) State agencies that regulate or contract with providers
of services, or both, for persons with disabilities or...
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22-21-336
Section 22-21-336 Transfer of funds and assets to authority. Any municipality, county, or educational
institution, any public hospital corporation and any other public agency, authority or body
is hereby authorized to transfer and convey to any authority, with or without consideration:
(1) Any health care facilities and other properties, real or personal, and all funds and assets,
tangible or intangible, relative to the ownership or operation of any such health care facilities
that may be owned by such municipality, county, educational institution, public hospital corporation
or other public agency, authority or body, as the case may be, or that may be jointly owned
by any two or more thereof, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any
certificates of need, assurances of need or other similar rights appertaining or ancillary
thereto, irrespective of whether they have been exercised; and (2) Any funds owned or controlled
by such municipality, county, educational...
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22-21-312
Section 22-21-312 Legislative findings and intent. The Legislature hereby finds and declares:
(1) That publicly-owned (as distinguished from investor-owned and community-nonprofit) hospitals
and other health care facilities furnish a substantial part of the indigent and reduced-rate
care and other health care services furnished to residents of the state by hospitals and other
health care facilities generally; (2) That as a result of current significant fiscal and budgetary
limitations or restrictions, the state and the various counties, municipalities, and educational
institutions therein are no longer able to provide, from taxes and other general fund moneys,
all the revenues and funds necessary to operate such publicly-owned hospitals and other health
care facilities adequately and efficiently; and (3) That to enable such publicly-owned hospitals
and other health care facilities to continue to operate adequately and efficiently, it is
necessary that the entities and agencies...
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