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11-91A-2
Section 11-91A-2 Local Government Health Insurance Board; governance and administration of
program. (a) The Local Government Health Insurance Board shall govern and administer the Local
Government Health Insurance Program currently governed and administered by the State Employees'
Insurance Board (SEIB) pursuant to Chapter 29 of Title 36. The transfer of the governance
and administration to the board shall take effect at 12:01 a.m. on January 1, 2015, and thereafter
the board shall take all control and responsibility for the program under procedures and authority
set out in this chapter. (b) The program governed and administered by the board shall provide
a reasonable relationship between the health care benefits to be included and the expected
health care expenses to be incurred by affected employees, retirees, and their dependents.
The board may establish a fully insured or self-insured health care plan for employees and
retirees as defined in this chapter and may adopt rules for the...
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11-91A-7
Section 11-91A-7 Jurisdiction of board; funding; powers of board. The board shall have full,
complete, and exclusive jurisdiction over the program and shall allocate funds from its treasury
for the fulfillment and accomplishment of its duties and responsibilities in a manner as may
be necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The board shall have
the general powers and authority granted under the laws of this state for health insurers,
and in addition thereto, the specific authority to do all of the following: (a) Subject to
compliance with Section 11-91A-8 where applicable, execute a contract or contracts to provide
for the administration of the program in accordance with this chapter. The contract or contracts
may be executed with one or more agencies or corporations licensed to transact or administer
group health care business in this state with similar plans of the state for the joint performance
of common administrative functions. (b) Establish, and...
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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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34-9-7
Section 34-9-7 Exemption of certain practices and operations. (a) Nothing in this chapter shall
apply to the following practices, acts, and operations: (1) The practice of his or her profession
by a physician or surgeon holding a certificate of qualification as a medical doctor and licensed
as such under the laws of this state, provided he or she shall not practice dentistry as a
specialty. (2) The practice of dentistry in the discharge of their official duties by graduate
dentists or dental surgeons in the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, or other armed services,
public health service including, but not limited to, a federally qualified health center authorized
and operating under Section 330 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. ยง 254B), provided,
however, that such federally qualified health centers shall register pursuant to Section 34-9-7.2
(provided further however, dentists, dental hygienists, and other personnel employed by any
public health service which performs...
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40-26B-70
Section 40-26B-70 Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) ACCESS PAYMENT. A payment by the Medicaid program to an eligible
hospital for inpatient or outpatient hospital care, or both, provided to a Medicaid recipient.
(2) ALL PATIENT REFINED DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUP (APR-DRG). A statistical system of classifying
any non-Medicare inpatient stay into groups for the purposes of payment. (3) ALTERNATE CARE
PROVIDER. A contractor, other than a regional care organization, that agrees to provide a
comprehensive package of Medicaid benefits to Medicaid beneficiaries in a defined region of
the state pursuant to a risk contract. (4) CERTIFIED PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (CPE). A certification
in writing of the cost of providing medical care to Medicaid beneficiaries by publicly owned
hospitals and hospitals owned by a state agency or a state university plus the amount of uncompensated
care provided by publicly owned hospitals and hospitals...
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27-20A-1
Section 27-20A-1 Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this chapter, and others
evidently intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication otherwise,
be given the following respective interpretations herein: (1) ALCOHOLISM. A chronic disorder
or illness in which the individual is unable, for psychological or physical reasons, or both,
to refrain from the frequent consumption of alcohol in quantities sufficient to produce intoxication
and, ultimately, injury to health and effective functioning. (2) DETOXIFICATION. Supervised
physical withdrawal from alcohol. (3) INPATIENT TREATMENT FOR ALCOHOLISM. Care provided in
a licensed hospital and is normally limited to detoxification where severe medical or psychiatric
complications are present or may be anticipated. (4) SHORT TERM RESIDENTIAL ALCOHOLISM TREATMENT
FACILITY. A state certified facility which provides structured programs of intensive treatment
services for people addicted to alcohol....
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27-7-1
Section 27-7-1 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) BUSINESS ENTITY. A corporation,
association, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other
legal entity. (2) COMMISSIONER. The Alabama Commissioner of Insurance. (3) HOME STATE. The
District of Columbia and any state or territory of the United States in which an insurance
producer maintains his or her principal place of residence or principal place of business
and is licensed to act as an insurance producer. (4) INSURANCE. As defined in Section 27-1-2.
(5) INSURANCE PRODUCER or PRODUCER. A person required to be licensed under the laws of this
state to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance. (6) INSURER. As defined in Section 27-1-2.
For the purposes of this chapter, insurer shall also mean an insurance company licensed pursuant
to Chapter 3, commencing with Section 27-3-1 of this title; a health...
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34-29-61
Section 34-29-61 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have
the following meanings ascribed by this section: (1) ACCREDITED SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE.
Any veterinary college or division of a university or college that offers the degree of doctor
of veterinary medicine or its equivalent and is accredited by the American Veterinary Medical
Association (AVMA). (2) ANIMAL. Any animal or mammal other than man, including birds, fish,
reptiles, wild or domestic, living or dead. (3) APPLICANT. A person who files an application
to be licensed to practice veterinary medicine or licensed as a veterinary technician. (4)
BOARD. Alabama State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners. (5) CONSULTING VETERINARIAN. A
veterinarian licensed in another state who gives advice or demonstrates techniques to a licensed
Alabama veterinarian or group of licensed Alabama veterinarians. A consulting veterinarian
shall not utilize this privilege to circumvent the law. (6) DIRECT...
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11-95-7
Section 11-95-7 Powers of corporation. In addition to all other powers granted elsewhere in
this chapter, a corporation shall have the following powers, together with all powers incidental
thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To have succession by
its corporate name for the duration of time (which may be perpetuity, subject to the provisions
of Section 11-95-19) specified in its certificate of incorporation; (2) To sue and be sued
in its own name in civil suits and actions, and to defend suits against it; (3) To adopt and
make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To adopt and alter bylaws
for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business; (5) To acquire, construct, equip,
enlarge, improve, maintain, and operate hospital facilities in the authorizing county and
to do all things necessary to that end; (6) To receive, acquire, take and hold, whether by
purchase, gift, lease, devise, or otherwise, real and personal property...
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22-21-318
Section 22-21-318 Powers of authority. (a) In addition to all other powers granted elsewhere
in this article, and subject to the express provisions of its certificate of incorporation,
an authority shall have the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto
or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To have succession by its corporate
name for the duration of time, which may be in perpetuity, specified in its certificate of
incorporation or until dissolved as provided in Section 22-21-339; (2) To sue and be sued
in its own name in civil suits and actions, and to defend suits and actions against it, including
suits and actions ex delicto and ex contractu, subject, however, to the provisions of Chapter
93 of Title 11, which chapter is hereby made applicable to the authority; (3) To adopt and
make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To adopt, alter, amend
and repeal bylaws, regulations and rules, not inconsistent with the...
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