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22-8A-4
Section 22-8A-4 Advance Directive for Health Care; living will and health care proxy. (a) Any
competent adult may execute a living will directing the providing, withholding, or withdrawal
of life-sustaining treatment and artificially provided nutrition and hydration. Artificially
provided nutrition and hydration shall not be withdrawn or withheld pursuant to the living
will unless specifically authorized therein. (b) A competent adult may execute at any time
a living will that includes a written health care proxy designation appointing another competent
adult to make decisions regarding the providing, withholding, or withdrawal of life-sustaining
treatment and artificially provided nutrition and hydration. Artificially provided nutrition
and hydration shall not be withdrawn or withheld pursuant to the proxy designation unless
specifically authorized therein. A proxy designation made pursuant to this section shall be
accepted in writing by the individual being appointed. The acceptance...
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22-4-35
Section 22-4-35 Submission of reports. (a) A covered health care reporter shall submit the
required reports directly to SHPDA. The reports may be submitted electronically after SHPDA
has the capability to accept the reports in an electronic format. SHPDA shall provide for
the acceptance of the electronic filing of the mandatory reports within six months of the
effective date of rules adopted to carry out this article. (b) If SHPDA is unable to electronically
accept the mandatory reports within 12 months of adoption of the rules necessary to carry
out this article, this article shall be null and void. (Act 2015-471, §6.)...
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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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6-5-542
Section 6-5-542 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) HEALTH CARE PROVIDER. A medical
practitioner, dental practitioner, medical institution, physician, dentist, hospital, or other
health care provider as those terms are defined in Section 6-5-481. (2) STANDARD OF CARE.
The standard of care is that level of such reasonable care, skill, and diligence as other
similarly situated health care providers in the same general line of practice, ordinarily
have and exercise in like cases. A breach of the standard of care is the failure by a health
care provider to comply with the standard of care, which failure proximately causes personal
injury or wrongful death. This definition applies to all actions for injuries or damages or
wrongful death whether in contract or tort and whether based on intentional or unintentional
conduct. (3) FUTURE DAMAGES. Damages for future medical treatment, care,...
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35-11-371
Section 35-11-371 Perfection of lien. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms
shall have the following meanings: (1) HEALTH CARE PAYOR. A health care insurer, health maintenance
organization, or health care service plan organized under Article 6, Chapter 20, Title 10A,
authorized to provide health care coverage in the state. (2) SATISFY THE CLAIM. Receipt by
the hospital of either of the following: a. Full payment for services as billed. b. If the
hospital has a contract with the injured person's health care payor, payment together with
all credits, discounts, and contractual adjustments that the patient's bill would be entitled
under the contract, including recoupments, between the hospital and the patient's health care
payor which extinguish the patient's obligation for the services rendered. (b) Unless specifically
contrary to any contractual agreement between the hospital and the injured person's health
care payor or unless contrary to any statute or governmental...
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36-29-14
Section 36-29-14 Health insurance coverage under State Employees' Insurance Board; operation
of board. (a) Any agency of the state, or any governmental entity, body, or subdivision thereto,
any county, any municipality, any municipal foundation, any fire or water district, authority,
or cooperative, any regional planning and development commission established pursuant to Sections
11-85-50 through 11-85-73, that is not and was not for the 12 months immediately preceding
the date of application to participate in any plan created pursuant to the provisions of this
article a member of an existing government sponsored health insurance program, formed under
the provisions of Section 11-26-2, the Association of County Commissions of Alabama or the
Alabama League of Municipalities, the Alabama Retired State Employees' Association, the Alabama
State Employees Credit Union, Easter Seals Alabama, Alabama State University, the Alabama
Rural Water Association, Rainbow Omega, Incorporated, The Arc...
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22-4-32
Section 22-4-32 Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have the
following meanings: (1) CERTIFICATE OF NEED REVIEW BOARD. The board which reviews all certificate
of need applications as provided in Section 22-21-260(14). (2) COVERED HEALTH CARE REPORTER.
The term includes health care facilities as that term is defined in Section 22-21-260(6);
new institutional health services subject to review as defined in Section 22-21-263; a facility
or institution for the care or treatment of any kind of mental or emotional illness or substance
abuse or for providing services to persons with intellectual disabilities as defined in Section
22-50-17; and facilities and distinct units as defined in Section 22-21-263(c). (3) HEALTH
CARE REPORTS. The written reports to SHPDA which are required to be submitted by this article.
(4) HEALTH CARE INFORMATION AND DATA ADVISORY COUNCIL. The body created by this article which
is charged with advising and participating in the...
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27-19A-3
Section 27-19A-3 Prohibited provisions. No health insurance policy or employee benefit plan
which is delivered, renewed, issued for delivery, or otherwise contracted for in this state
shall: (1) Prevent any person who is a party to or beneficiary of any such health insurance
policy or employee benefit plan from selecting the dentist of his choice to furnish the dental
care services offered by said policy or plan or interfere with said selection provided the
dentist is licensed to furnish such dental care services in this state; (2) Deny any dentist
the right to participate as a contracting provider for such policy or plan provided the dentist
is licensed to furnish the dental care services offered by said policy or plan; (3) Authorize
any person to regulate, interfere, or intervene in any manner in the diagnosis or treatment
rendered by a dentist to his patient for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing, or
healing dental illness or injury provided said dentist practices within...
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27-19A-4
Section 27-19A-4 Required provisions. Any health insurance policy or employee benefit plan
which is delivered, renewed, issued for delivery, or otherwise contracted for in this state
shall, to the extent that it provides benefits for dental care expenses: (1) Disclose, if
applicable, that the benefit offered is limited to the least costly treatment; (2) Define
and explain the standard upon which the payment of benefits or reimbursement for the cost
of dental care services is based, such as "usual and customary," "reasonable
and customary," "usual, customary, and reasonable," fees or words of similar
import or specify in dollars and cents the amount of the payment or reimbursement for dental
care services to be provided. Said payment or reimbursement for a noncontracting provider
dentist shall be the same as the payment or reimbursement for a contracting provider dentist;
provided, however, that the health insurance policy or the employee benefit plan shall not
be required to make...
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27-1-11
Section 27-1-11 Dentists and dental hygienists as "physicians" under health or accident
insurance policies. Whenever the terms "physician" and/or "doctor" are
used in any policy of health or accident insurance issued in this state or in any contract
for the provision of health care, services, or benefits issued by any health, medical or other
service corporation existing under, and by virtue of any laws of this state, said terms shall
include within their meaning those persons licensed under and in accordance with Chapter 9
of Title 34 in respect to any care, services, procedures, or benefits covered by said policy
of insurance or health care contract which the said persons are licensed to perform, any provisions
in any such policy of insurance or health care contract to the contrary notwithstanding. This
section shall be applicable to all policies in this state, regardless of date of issue, on
October 10, 1975. (Acts 1975, No. 1241, p. 2607, §1.)...
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