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22-8A-7
Section 22-8A-7 Competency of declarant; liability of participating physician, facility, etc.
(a) A competent adult may make decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment and artificially
provided nutrition and hydration so long as that individual is able to do so. The desires
of an individual shall at all times supersede the effect of an advance directive for health
care. (b) If the individual is not competent at the time of the decision to provide, withhold,
or withdraw life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration, a
living will executed in accordance with Section 22-8A-4(a) or a proxy designation executed
in accordance with Section 22-8A-4(b) is presumed to be valid. For the purpose of this chapter,
a health care provider may presume in the absence of actual notice to the contrary that an
individual who executed an advance directive for health care was competent when it was executed.
The fact of an individual's having executed an advance directive for...
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34-9-6.1
Section 34-9-6.1 Mobile dental facilities or portable dental operations. (a) For purposes of
this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) DENTAL HOME. The dental
home is the ongoing relationship between the dentist and the patient, inclusive of all aspects
of oral health care, delivered in a comprehensive, continuously accessible, coordinated, and
family-centered way. (2) MOBILE DENTAL FACILITY. Any self-contained facility in which dentistry
or dental hygiene is practiced which may be moved, towed, or transported from one location
to another. (3) OPERATOR. A person licensed to practice dentistry in this state or an entity
which is approved as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code which
employs dentists licensed in the state to operate a mobile dental facility or portable dental
operation. (4) PORTABLE DENTAL OPERATION. The use of portable dental delivery equipment which
is set up on site to provide dental services outside of a mobile...
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34-2A-2
Section 34-2A-2 License required; permission to supervise multiple facilities. (a) All administrators
of assisted living facilities or specialty care assisted living facilities as recorded in
the records of the State Department of Public Health shall be issued a provisional license,
as defined herein, upon the effective date of this act. On and after September 1, 2003, no
assisted living facility in the state may operate unless it is under the supervision of an
administrator who holds a currently valid assisted living administrator's license, or new
initial provisional license, issued by the board. No person shall practice or offer to practice
assisted living administration in this state or use any title, sign, card, or device to indicate
that he or she is an assisted living administrator unless the person shall have been duly
licensed as an assisted living administrator or as a provisional assisted living administrator
in this state. In the event an assisted living administrator dies,...
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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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34-24-603
Section 34-24-603 Definitions. Unless otherwise indicated from the context, the terms set out
below, as used in this article shall have the following meanings: (1) APPLICANT. A person
who has submitted or that is in the process of submitting a registration under this article.
(2) BOARD. The Alabama Board of Medical Examiners. (3) CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. A drug, substance,
or immediate precursor identified, defined, or listed in Sections 20-2-20 to 20-2-32, inclusive.
(4) HOSPITAL. A health care institution licensed by the Alabama Department of Public Health
and has the same definition as provided in Chapter 420-5-7 of the Alabama Administrative Code.
The term shall include any outpatient facility or clinic that is separated from the hospital
that is owned, operated, or controlled by the hospital. (5) PAIN MANAGEMENT SERVICES. Those
medical services that involve the prescription of controlled substances in order to treat
chronic nonmalignant pain by a physician who treats pain. (6)...
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22-21-265.3
Section 22-21-265.3 Certificates of need - All-digital, automated hospital exempt from review
process. The Legislature finds and determines that the well-being and health of the citizens
of the State of Alabama will be enhanced by the development and growth of a state of the art
digital, automated hospital using the latest technological advances in healthcare to lower
healthcare costs, reduce human errors, and provide patients with the best medical care available,
and that it is in the best interest of the state to induce the location of one all-digital,
automated hospital, meeting the requirements of a digital hospital as provided in subsection
(f) of Section 22-21-265, in a county in which is located an accredited medical school and
teaching facility and not less than 3,000 licensed general hospital beds, in order to set
new standards for quality, efficiency, and cost-effective delivery of healthcare services,
and to promote these purposes by exempting from the certificate of need...
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27-1-16
Section 27-1-16 Standard health insurance claim form; electronic claims form; various claim
forms. (a)(1) The Commissioner of the Department of Insurance shall prescribe a standard health
insurance claim form to be used by all hospitals. The forms shall be prescribed in a format
which allows for the use of generally accepted diagnosis and treatment coding systems by providers
of health care and payors. The standard form shall be accepted and used by all insurers doing
business in the State of Alabama and by all state agencies which pay providers of health care
for hospital services. (2) The Commissioner of the Department of Insurance shall also prescribe
a format for all health insurance claims transmitted or submitted for payment by electronic
or electro-mechanical means. Such a format shall be used by all insurers doing business in
the State of Alabama and by all state agencies which pay providers of health care for hospital
services. (b) An advisory committee of five persons, two...
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26-16-112
Section 26-16-112 Definitions. For purposes of this arciclet, the following words shall have
the following meanings: (1) FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST. A pathologist trained or with experience
in forensic pathology, licensed to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and
surgery in the State of Alabama and board certified by the American Board of Pathology, or
under the direct supervision of a physician with these qualifications. (2) INFANT DEATH. The
sudden death of an person less than one year of age whose death occurs outside the direct
care of a physician in a hospital or other health care setting. (3) SUDDEN UNEXPLAINED INFANT
DEATH (SUID). The sudden death of an infant less than one year of age whose death occurs outside
the direct care of a physician in a hospital or other health care setting and whose cause
of death is not reasonably ascertainable after a thorough investigation and examination by
the person signing the death certificate. (Act 2011-705, p. 2184, ยง3.)...
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27-3A-3
Section 27-3A-3 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall
have the following meanings: (1) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Public Health. (2)
ENROLLEE. An individual who has contracted for or who participates in coverage under an insurance
policy, a health maintenance organization contract, a health service corporation contract,
an employee welfare benefit plan, a hospital or medical services plan, or any other benefit
program providing payment, reimbursement, or indemnification for health care costs for the
individual or the eligible dependents of the individual. (3) PROVIDER. A health care provider
duly licensed or certified by the State of Alabama. (4) UTILIZATION REVIEW. A system for prospective
and concurrent review of the necessity and appropriateness in the allocation of health care
resources and services given or proposed to be given to an individual within this state. The
term does not include elective requests for clarification of...
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27-54A-2
Section 27-54A-2 Treatment under certain policies and contracts. (a) As used in this section,
the following words have the following meanings: (1) APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS. The design,
implementation, and evaluation of environmental modifications, using behavioral stimuli and
consequences, to produce socially significant improvement in human behavior, including the
use of direct observation, measurement, and functional analysis of the relationship between
environment and behavior. (2) AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER. Any of the pervasive developmental
disorders or autism spectrum disorders as defined by the most recent edition of the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or the edition that was in effect at the
time of diagnosis. (3) BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TREATMENT. Counseling and treatment programs, including
applied behavior analysis that are both of the following: a. Necessary to develop, maintain,
or restore, to the maximum extent practicable, the functioning of an...
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