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22-21B-3
Section 22-21B-3 Definitions. The following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed
to them in this section, unless otherwise required by their respective context: (1) CONSCIENCE.
The religious, moral, or ethical principles held by a health care provider. (2) DISCRIMINATION.
Discrimination includes, but is not limited to: Hiring, termination, refusal of staff privileges,
refusal of board certification, demotion, loss of career specialty, reduction of wages or
benefits, adverse treatment in the terms and conditions of employment, refusal to award any
grant, contract, or other program, or refusal to provide residency training opportunities.
(3) HEALTH CARE PROVIDER. Any individual who may be asked to participate in any way in a health
care service, including, but not limited to: A physician, physician's assistant, nurse, nurse's
aide, medical assistant, hospital employee, clinic employee, nursing home employee, pharmacist,
researcher, medical or nursing school faculty, student,...
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22-52-91
Section 22-52-91 Duty of law enforcement officer, community mental health officer to take into
custody alleged mentally ill persons; detention; admission; hearing. (a) When a law enforcement
officer is confronted by circumstances and has reasonable cause for believing that a person
within the county is mentally ill and also believes that the person is likely to be of immediate
danger to self or others, the law enforcement officer shall contact a community mental health
officer. The community mental health officer shall join the law enforcement officer at the
scene and location of the person to assess conditions and determine if the person needs the
attention, specialized care, and services of a designated mental health facility. If the community
mental health officer determines from the conditions, symptoms, and behavior that the person
appears to be mentally ill and poses an immediate danger to self or others, the law enforcement
officer shall take the person into custody and,...
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40-26B-26
Section 40-26B-26 Reduction of revenues; reimbursement computations; quality incentive program.
THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED BY ACT 2020-147 IN THE 2020 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE MAY 18, 2020.
THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) No revenues resulting from the privilege assessment
established by this article and applied to increases in covered services or reimbursement
levels or other enhancements of the Medicaid program shall be subject to reduction or elimination
while the privilege assessment is in effect. (b) Every nursing facility participating in the
Medicaid program in the State of Alabama shall be reimbursed according to the reimbursement
methodology contained in Chapter 560-X-22 of the Alabama Medicaid Agency Administrative Code
(Supp. 12/31/95) on January 31, 1998, which methodology is incorporated by reference herein,
except that the following shall apply: (1) The ceiling for the operating cost center described
in Title 560-X-22-.06 (2)(a) of the Alabama Medicaid...
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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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27-17A-47
Section 27-17A-47 Establishment and management of endowment care fund. (a) Every cemetery authority
operating an endowment care cemetery shall establish an endowment care fund which shall be
placed with and held by a bank, trust company, savings and loan association, or other financial
institution authorized to provide trust services under Title 5, as amended, or under the applicable
laws of the United States or any other state, or a board of trustees, consisting of at least
three members, who shall reside in the State of Alabama, one of whom is engaged in outside
cemetery management, and each of whom shall be bonded to honestly perform the duties of trustee
under a formal trust agreement. (b) Except as specifically provided in this subsection, commencing
on July 1, 2014, a person serving on a board of trustees or cemetery authority may not also
serve as a trustee of an endowment care fund for the cemetery authority. A board of trustees
in existence on July 1, 2014, may continue to...
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34-21-121
Section 34-21-121 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall
have the following meanings: (1) ADVERSE ACTION. Any administrative, civil, equitable, or
criminal action permitted by the law of a state which is imposed by a licensing board or other
authority against a nurse, including actions against the license or multistate licensure privilege
of an individual, including revocation, suspension, probation, monitoring of a licensee, limitations
on the practice of the licensee, the bringing of a cease and desist action against the licensee,
or any other encumbrance on licensure affecting the authorization of a nurse to practice.
(2) ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM. A nondisciplinary monitoring program approved by a licensing board.
(3) COMMISSION. The Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators. (4) COMPACT.
The Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact created by this article. (5) COORDINATED LICENSURE INFORMATION
SYSTEM. An integrated process for collecting,...
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34-24-74
Section 34-24-74 Nonresident consultants; physician accompanying patient being transported
into Alabama for treatment. A doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy licensed to practice
medicine in any state of the United States or the District of Columbia who may be called into
this state in order to treat a patient in consultation with a physician licensed to practice
medicine in this state shall be allowed the temporary privilege of practicing medicine in
this state. This privilege shall be limited to 10 calendar days in a calendar year. A doctor
of medicine or doctor of osteopathy licensed to practice medicine in any state in the United
States or the District of Columbia who accompanies a patient being transported to the State
of Alabama by air or ground transportation for the purpose of receiving medical treatment
at any hospital, clinic, or medical facility in the State of Alabama shall be permitted to
render necessary medical care to the patient while the patient is being...
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20-2-58
Section 20-2-58 Dispensing of controlled substances in Schedule II; maintenance of records
and inventories by registered pharmacies. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section
or as otherwise provided by law, a pharmacist may dispense directly a controlled substance
in Schedule II only pursuant to a written prescription signed by the practitioner. Except
as provided in subsections (b) and (c), a prescription for a Schedule II controlled substance
may be transmitted by the practitioner or the agent of the practitioner to a pharmacy via
facsimile equipment; provided, the original written, signed prescription is presented to the
pharmacist for review prior to the actual dispensing of the controlled substance. (b) A prescription
written for a Schedule II narcotic substance to be compounded for the direct administration
to a patient by parenteral, intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous, or intraspinal infusion
may be transmitted by the practitioner or the agent of the practitioner...
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22-5D-4
Section 22-5D-4 Coverage and costs. (a) This chapter does not expand the coverage required
of an insurer. (b) A health plan, third party administrator, or governmental agency is not
required to provide coverage for the cost of an investigational drug, biological product,
or device, or the cost of services related to the use of an investigational drug, biological
product, or device under this chapter. (c) This chapter does not require any governmental
agency to pay costs associated with the use, care, or treatment of a patient with an investigational
drug, biological product, or device. (d) This chapter does not require a hospital or other
health care facility to provide new or additional services, unless approved by the hospital
or facility. (Act 2015-320, ยง4.)...
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22-6-10
Section 22-6-10 Women's right to health care. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited
as the "Women's Right to Health Care Act." (b) Any state program funded under Title
XIX of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 1396 et seq., and any other publicly
funded state health care program which provides coverage for mastectomy surgery shall also
provide coverage for reconstruction of the breast on which surgery has been performed and
surgery and reconstruction of the other breast to produce a symmetrical appearance if the
patient is eligible for Medicaid and elects reconstruction within two years of the mastectomy
surgery and in the manner chosen by the patient and the physician, in accordance with guidelines
consistent with Medicare and other third party payers. Reimbursement is allowed only for breast
reconstructive surgery following a medically necessary mastectomy when performed for the removal
of cancer. As used in this section, the term "reconstruction" shall...
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