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34-8A-2
Section 34-8A-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, unless the context requires
otherwise, the following words and phrases shall have the respective meanings ascribed by
this section: (1) ASSOCIATE LICENSED COUNSELOR. Any person that has been licensed by the board
to offer counseling services as defined in this section while under the supervision of a board
approved supervisor. (2) BOARD. The Alabama Board of Examiners in Counseling. (3) COUNSELING
SERVICES. Those acts and behaviors coming within the private practice of counseling. (4) LICENSED
PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR. Any person who represents to the public by any title or description
of services incorporating the words "licensed professional counselor" or "licensed
counselor"; and who offers to render professional counseling services in private practice
to individuals, groups, organizations, corporations, institutions, government agencies, or
the general public in settings of individual or group practice for a fee, salary,...
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20-2-211
Section 20-2-211 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have
the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) CERTIFYING BOARDS. Those boards designated
in subdivision (3) of Section 20-2-2. (2) CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. Any drug or medication defined
as a controlled substance within the meaning of subdivision (4) of Section 20-2-2. (3) DEPARTMENT.
The Alabama Department of Public Health. (4) LICENSING BOARD OR COMMISSION. The board, commission,
or other entity that is authorized to issue a professional license to a pharmacist or an authorized
practitioner. (5) PHARMACIST. Any person, as defined in subdivision (17) of Section 34-23-1,
licensed by the Alabama State Board of Pharmacy or otherwise permitted by Alabama or federal
law to practice the profession of pharmacy within this state. (6) PHARMACY. A retail establishment,
as defined in subdivision (18) of Section 34-23-1, licensed by the Alabama State Board of
Pharmacy. (7) PRACTITIONER or...
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22-18-40
Section 22-18-40 State Emergency Medical Control Committee. (a) The board shall be assisted
in formulating rules and policy pertaining to emergency medical services by the State Emergency
Medical Control Committee (SEMCC). Each member of the SEMCC shall have voting privileges.
Members of the SEMCC shall serve without compensation but shall be entitled to reimbursement
for expenses incurred in the performance of the duties of their office at the same rate paid
state employees. The chair of SEMCC may establish subcommittees of SEMCC comprised of representatives
from ambulance, fire, rescue, and other EMS groups, as needed. (b) The SEMCC shall be composed
as follows: (1) The medical directors of each EMS region designated by the board as ex officio
members. (2) One member who shall be a physician appointed by the Alabama Chapter of the American
College of Emergency Physicians. (3) One member who shall be a physician appointed by the
State Committee on Trauma of the American College of...
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22-21-27
Section 22-21-27 Advisory board. (a) There shall be an advisory board of 17 members to assist
in the establishment of rules, regulations, and standards necessary to carry out this article
and to serve as consultants to the State Health Officer. The board shall meet at least twice
each year and at the call of the State Health Officer. The board may meet by electronic means
in compliance with the Alabama Open Meetings Act and shall establish rules of procedure for
its meetings. The members of the board shall annually elect one of its members to serve as
chair. (b) The advisory board shall be constituted in the following manner: (1) Four representatives
of hospitals who shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Hospital Association
as follows: a. One administrator of a governmental hospital. b. One administrator of a nongovernmental
nonprofit hospital. c. One owner or administrator of a proprietary hospital. d. One member
of a managing board of a nonprofit hospital. (2)...
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22-21-354
Section 22-21-354 Further provisions respecting use and disposition of certain property. In
determining the financial effect of an arrangement between an authority and any nonhospital-based
physician, dentist or other health care professional for the furnishing of office space to
any such person for use in his private practice (for purposes of those provisions of the enabling
statute relating thereto), the board: (1) May, in the determination of the rental and other
consideration to be received by the authority from the furnishing of such office space, consider
not only the dollar amount of such rental and other consideration being or to be paid by such
person pursuant to such arrangement, but also such other circumstances or conditions as it
shall generally describe in an authorizing resolution, including (without limitation and by
way of example or illustration) factors such as the probability or possibility that such person
will refer patients or others to any one or more of the...
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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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27-1-16
Section 27-1-16 Standard health insurance claim form; electronic claims form; various claim
forms. (a)(1) The Commissioner of the Department of Insurance shall prescribe a standard health
insurance claim form to be used by all hospitals. The forms shall be prescribed in a format
which allows for the use of generally accepted diagnosis and treatment coding systems by providers
of health care and payors. The standard form shall be accepted and used by all insurers doing
business in the State of Alabama and by all state agencies which pay providers of health care
for hospital services. (2) The Commissioner of the Department of Insurance shall also prescribe
a format for all health insurance claims transmitted or submitted for payment by electronic
or electro-mechanical means. Such a format shall be used by all insurers doing business in
the State of Alabama and by all state agencies which pay providers of health care for hospital
services. (b) An advisory committee of five persons, two...
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34-24-290
Section 34-24-290 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words and phrases
shall have the following meanings: (1) APPROVED PROGRAM. A program for the education and training
of assistants to physicians which has been formally approved in writing by the board. (2)
ASSISTANT TO PHYSICIAN. A person who is a graduate of an approved program, is licensed by
the board, and is registered by the board to perform medical services under the supervision
of a physician approved by the board to supervise the assistant. (3) BOARD. The Board of Medical
Examiners of the State of Alabama. (4) LEGEND DRUG. Any drug, medicine, chemical, or poison,
bearing on the label the words, "Caution, Federal Law prohibits dispensing without prescription"
or similar words indicating that the drug, medicine, chemical, or poison may be sold or dispensed
only upon the prescription of a licensed medical practitioner, except that the term legend
drug shall not include any drug, substance, or compound...
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34-25A-4
Section 34-25A-4 Referral and consultation limits. (a) A licensed prosthetist, licensed orthotist,
or licensed prosthetist/orthotist may provide services utilizing new prostheses or orthoses
for which he or she is licensed and only under a written order from an authorized health care
practitioner. A consultation with and periodic review by an authorized health care practitioner
is not required for the evaluation, repair, adjusting, or servicing of a prosthesis by a licensed
prosthetist, or licensed prosthetist/orthotist and for the evaluation, repair, adjusting,
or servicing of an orthosis by a licensed orthotist, or licensed prosthetist/orthotist; nor
is an order from an authorized health care practitioner required for maintenance or replacement
of an orthosis or prosthesis to the level of its original prescription for an indefinite period
of time if the original order remains appropriate for the patient's medical needs. (b) Prosthetists
and orthotists must refer persons receiving...
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26-23A-3
Section 26-23A-3 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the
following meanings: (1) ABORTION. The use or prescription of any instrument, medicine, drug,
or any other substance or device with the intent to terminate the pregnancy of a woman known
to be pregnant. Such use or prescription is not an abortion if done with the intent to save
the life or preserve the health of an unborn child, remove a dead unborn child, or to deliver
an unborn child prematurely in order to preserve the health of both the mother (pregnant woman)
and her unborn child. (2) CONCEPTION. The fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human ovum.
(3) EMANCIPATED MINOR. Any minor who is or has been married or has by court order otherwise
been legally freed from the care, custody, and control of her parents. (4) GESTATIONAL AGE.
The time that has elapsed since the first day of the woman's last menstrual period. (5) MEDICAL
EMERGENCY. That condition which, on the basis of the physician's...
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