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16-25A-5
Section 16-25A-5 Authorization for health insurance plan; election of optional or supplemental
coverage. (a) The board is hereby empowered and authorized to establish a fully insured or
self-insured health insurance plan for employees and, under certain conditions, retired employees
and to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for the administration of such plan subject
to such limitations as may be contained in this article. Such plan may provide for group hospitalization,
surgical, medical, cancer, cash indemnity, and dental insurance against the financial costs
of hospitalization, surgical, and medical treatment and care and may also include, among other
things, prescribed drugs, medicines, prosthetic appliances, hospital inpatient and outpatient
service benefits, and hospital/medical expenses indemnity benefits, including major medical
benefits or such other coverage or benefits as may be deemed appropriate and desirable by
the board, within the limits of such funds as may be...
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22-21B-4
Section 22-21B-4 Participation in a health care service that violates the conscience of health
care provider; written objection; liability. (a) A health care provider has the right not
to participate, and no health care provider shall be required to participate, in a health
care service that violates his or her conscience when the health care provider has objected
in writing prior to being asked to provide such health care services. (b) When objecting in
writing in accordance with this chapter, no health care provider shall be civilly, criminally,
or administratively liable for declining to participate in a health care service that violates
his or her conscience except when failure to do so would immediately endanger the life of
a patient. (c) It shall be unlawful for any person, health care provider, health care institution,
public or private institution, public official, or any board which certifies competency in
medical or health care specialties to discriminate against any health...
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25-5-339
Section 25-5-339 Confidentiality of information. (a) All information, interviews, reports,
statements, memoranda, and test results, written or otherwise, received by the employer through
a substance abuse testing program are confidential communications, but may be used or received
in evidence, obtained in discovery, or disclosed in any civil or administrative proceeding,
except as provided in subsection (c). (b) Employers, laboratories, medical review officers,
employee assistance programs, drug or alcohol rehabilitation programs, and their agents who
receive or have access to information concerning test results shall keep all information confidential.
Release of such information under any other circumstance shall be solely pursuant to a written
consent form signed voluntarily by the person tested, unless the release is compelled by an
agency of the state or a court of competent jurisdiction or unless deemed appropriate by a
professional or occupational licensing board in a related...
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25-5-78
Section 25-5-78 Written notice to employer of accident - Required. For purposes of this article
only, an injured employee or the employee's representative, within five days after the occurrence
of an accident, shall give or cause to be given to the employer written notice of the accident.
If the notice is not given, the employee or the employee's dependent shall not be entitled
to physician's or medical fees nor any compensation which may have accrued under the terms
of this article, unless it can be shown that the party required to give the notice had been
prevented from doing so by reason of physical or mental incapacity, other than minority, fraud
or deceit, or equal good reason. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, no compensation
shall be payable unless written notice is given within 90 days after the occurrence of the
accident or, if death results, within 90 days after the death. (Acts 1919, No. 245, p. 206;
Code 1923, §7568; Code 1940, T. 26, §294; Acts 1992,...
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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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27-49-3
Section 27-49-3 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN. Any individual or group plan, policy, or contract for health
care services issued, delivered, issued for delivery, renewed in this state by a health care
insurer, health maintenance organization, accident and sickness insurer, fraternal benefit
society, nonprofit hospital service corporation, nonprofit medical service corporation, health
care service plan, or any other person, firm, corporation, joint venture, or other similar
business entity that pays for, purchases, or furnishes health care services to patients, insureds,
or beneficiaries in this state. The term includes, but is not limited to, entities created
pursuant to Article 6 of Chapter 4 of Title 10. For the purposes of this chapter, a health
benefit plan located or domiciled outside of the State of Alabama is deemed to be subject
to the provisions of this chapter if it receives, processes,...
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45-49A-81.10
Section 45-49A-81.10 Pension eligibility for certain employees - 20 years of service. (a) Any
employee of the City of Prichard, except as herein otherwise provided, who has been in the
service of the city for as long as 20 years, the last four years of which, counting a major
fraction of a year as a full year, have been continuous, and who is then employed by the city,
upon his or her making application to the city council of the city, shall be retired from
service as an employee without medical examination or disability. Any employee who has been
in the service of the city for as long as 20 years, the last four years of which, counting
a major fraction of a year as a full year, have been continuous, and whose employment has
been terminated prior to his or her making application for retirement from service as an employee
of the city shall be entitled to make application for retirement as an employee without medical
examination or disability as if he or she were yet an employee of the...
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27-20-7
Section 27-20-7 Blanket disability insurance - Payment of benefits. All benefits under any
blanket disability policy shall be payable to the person insured, or to his employer, or to
his designated beneficiary or beneficiaries or to his estate; except, that if the person insured
be a minor or mental incompetent, such benefits may be made payable to his parent, guardian,
or other person actually supporting him, or, if the entire cost of the insurance has been
borne by the employer, such benefits may be made payable to the employer; provided, however,
that the policy may provide that all, or any portion, of any indemnities provided by such
policy on account of hospital, nursing, medical, or surgical services may, at the insurer's
option, be paid directly to the hospital or person rendering such services; but the policy
may not require that the service be rendered by a particular hospital or person. Payment so
made shall discharge the insurer's obligation with respect to the amount of...
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34-24-292
Section 34-24-292 Services performed by trainees and assistants. (a) Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, a licensed assistant to a physician may perform medical services when the
services are rendered under the supervision of a licensed physician or physicians approved
by the board; except, that no medical services may be performed under this article except
under the supervision of an ophthalmologist in the office in which the physician normally
actually practices his or her profession and nowhere else in any of the following areas: (1)
The measurement of the powers or range of human vision or the determination of the accommodation
and refractive state of the human eye or the scope of its functions in general or the fitting
or adaptation of lenses or frames for the aid thereof. (2) The prescribing or directing the
use of or using any optical device in connection with ocular exercises, visual training, or
orthoptics. (3) The prescribing of contact lenses for or the fitting or...
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21-8-3
Section 21-8-3 Treatment program established. There is hereby established the Hemophilia Treatment
Program in Alabama, to be administered by the Children's Rehabilitation Service of the Department
of Rehabilitation Services. Such treatment program shall use the existing facilities and staff
of the Children's Rehabilitation Service, as required, for the care and treatment of persons
suffering from hemophilia. The Hemophilia Treatment Program shall assist those persons who
require continuing treatment with blood, blood derivatives, or a manufactured pharmaceutical
product to avoid crippling, hospitalization, or other effects associated with hemophilia,
but who are unable to pay for the entire cost of such services on a continuing basis, despite
the existence of various types of hospital and medical insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, other
government assistance programs, and private charitable assistance. (Acts 1975, No. 1181, p.
2312, §3.)...
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