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22-6-154
Section 22-6-154 Quality assurance committee; collection and publication of information. (a)
The Medicaid Agency shall create a quality assurance committee appointed by the Medicaid Commissioner.
The members of the committee shall serve two-year terms. At least 60 percent of the members
shall be physicians who provide care to Medicaid beneficiaries served by a regional care organization.
In making appointments to the committee, the Medicaid Commissioner shall seek input from the
appropriate professional associations. (b) The committee shall identify objective outcome
and quality measures, including measures of outcome and quality for ambulatory care, inpatient
care, chemical dependency and mental health treatment, oral health care, and all other health
services provided by coordinated care organizations. Quality measures adopted by the committee
shall be consistent with existing state and national quality measures. The Medicaid Commissioner
shall incorporate these measures into...
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22-6-151
Section 22-6-151 Regional care organizations; governing board of directors; citizen's advisory
committee; solvency and financial requirements; reporting; provider standards committee. (a)
A regional care organization shall serve only Medicaid beneficiaries in providing medical
care and services. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a regional care organization
shall not be deemed an insurance company under state law. (c)(1) A regional care organization
and an organization with probationary regional care organization certification shall have
a governing board of directors composed of the following members: a. Twelve members shall
be persons representing risk-bearing participants in the regional care organization or organization
with probationary certification. A participant bears risk by contributing cash, capital, or
other assets to the regional care organization. A participant also bears risk by contracting
with the regional care organization to treat Medicaid beneficiaries...
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22-6-227
Section 22-6-227 Quality assurance committee; reporting requirements. (a) The Medicaid Agency
shall create a quality assurance committee appointed by the Medicaid Commissioner to review
the care rendered through the integrated care networks. The members of the committee shall
serve two-year terms. The Medicaid Agency shall promulgate a rule establishing the membership
and criteria to serve on the quality assurance committee. (b) The Medicaid Agency shall continuously
evaluate the outcome and quality measures adopted by the committee pursuant to this section.
(c) The Medicaid Agency shall utilize available data systems for reporting outcome and quality
measures adopted by the committee and take actions to eliminate any redundant reporting or
reporting of limited value. (d) The Medicaid Agency shall publish the information collected
under this section at aggregate levels that do not disclose information otherwise protected
by law. The information published shall report all of the...
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22-6-153
Section 22-6-153 Contract to provide medical care to Medicaid beneficiaries; enrollment; grievance
procedures; duties of Medicaid Agency. (a) Subject to approval of the federal Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Medicaid Agency shall enter into a contract in each Medicaid
region for at least one fully certified regional care organization to provide, pursuant to
a risk contract under which the Medicaid Agency makes a capitated payment, medical care to
Medicaid beneficiaries. However, the Medicaid Agency may enter into a contract pursuant to
this section only if, in the judgment of the Medicaid Agency, care of Medicaid beneficiaries
would be better, more efficient, and less costly than under the then existing care delivery
system. The Medicaid Agency may contract with more than one regional care organization in
a Medicaid region. Pursuant to the contract, the Medicaid Agency shall set capitation payments
for the regional care organization. (b) The Medicaid Agency shall...
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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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29-2-105
Section 29-2-105 Coordination council - Composition; meetings; duties. (a) The committee shall
convene a council composed of the chair of the committee or his or her designee and the commissioner
or the commissioner's designee of each department of state government that administers services
to children, youth, and their families, including, but not limited to, the Department of Education,
the Department of Human Resources, the Department of Mental Health, the Department of Public
Health, the Medicaid Agency, the Department of Youth Services, the Department of Rehabilitation
Services, one member from the Alabama Association of County Directors of Human Resources appointed
by that organization, one member from the Alabama Residential Child Care Association appointed
by that organization, two members from the Alabama Foster Parent Association appointed by
that organization, one member from the Juvenile Court Judges Association appointed by that
organization, one guardian ad litem...
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22-6-155
Section 22-6-155 Terms of contracts; cost evaluations. An initial contract between the Medicaid
Agency and a regional care organization shall be for three years, with the option for the
Medicaid Agency to renew the contract for not more than two additional one-year periods. The
Medicaid Agency shall obtain provider input and an independent evaluation of the cost savings,
patient outcomes, and quality of care provided by each regional care organization, and obtain
the results of each regional care organization's evaluation in time to use the findings to
decide whether to enter into another multi-year contract with the regional care organization
or change the Medicaid region's care-delivery system. (Act 2013-261, p. 686, §6; Act 2014-434,
p. 1598, §1.)...
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22-6-156
Section 22-6-156 Contracts with alternate care providers. The Medicaid Agency may contract
with an alternate care provider in a Medicaid region only under the terms of this section:
(1) If a regional care organization failed to provide adequate service pursuant to its contract,
or had its certification terminated, or if the Medicaid Agency could not award a contract
to a regional care organization under the terms of Section 22-6-153, or if no organization
had been awarded a regional care organization certificate by October 1, 2016, or a later date
established by the Medicaid Agency if an extension is determined, in the Medicaid Agency's
sole discretion, to be in the best interest of the state, then the Medicaid Agency shall first
offer a contract, to resume interrupted service or to assume service in the region, under
the conditions of Section 22-6-153 to any other regional care organization that Medicaid judged
would meet its quality criteria. (2) If by October 1, 2014, no...
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22-6-222
Section 22-6-222 Citizens' advisory committee. There shall be a citizens' advisory committee
constituted to advise the integrated care network on ways the integrated care network may
be more efficient in providing quality care to Medicaid beneficiaries. In addition, the advisory
committee shall carry out other functions and duties assigned to it by the integrated care
network and approved by the Medicaid Agency. The committee shall meet all of the following
criteria: (1) Be selected in a method established by the organization seeking to become an
integrated care network, or established by an integrated care network, and approved by the
Medicaid Agency. (2) At least 20 percent of its members shall be Medicaid beneficiaries or
sponsors of Medicaid beneficiaries or, if the organization has been certified as an integrated
care network, at least 20 percent of its members shall be Medicaid beneficiaries enrolled
in the integrated care network, or their sponsor. (3) Include members who are...
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22-6-122
Section 22-6-122 Medicaid Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee - Classification and recommendation
of drugs; assurance of quality patient care; review of pharmaceutical products. (a) The Medicaid
Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee shall review and recommend classes of drugs to the Medicaid
Commissioner for inclusion in the Medicaid Preferred Drug Plan. Class means a therapeutic
group of pharmaceutical agents approved by the FDA as defined by the American Hospital Formulary
Service. The classes of anti-retroviral and anti-psychotic drugs shall not be included in
the Medicaid Preferred Drug Plan. (b) The Medicaid Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee shall
develop its preferred drug list recommendations by considering the clinical efficacy, safety,
and cost effectiveness of a product. Within each covered class, the committee shall review
and recommend drugs to the Medicaid Commissioner for inclusion on a preferred drug list. Generics
and over the counter drugs covered by Medicaid may be...
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