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27-19A-7
Section 27-19A-7 Contracting directly with patient; distribution of information about policy
or plan; payment and reimbursement procedures. The provisions of this chapter do not prohibit
the following conduct and shall be construed to provide that: (1) A dentist may contract directly
with a patient for the furnishing of dental care services to said patient as may be otherwise
authorized by law; (2) Any person providing a health insurance policy or employee benefit
plan, or an employer, or an employee organization may: a. Make available to its insureds,
beneficiaries, participants, employees, or members information relating to dental care services
by the distribution of factually accurate information regarding dental care services, rates,
fees, location, and hours of service, provided such distribution is made upon the request
of any dentist licensed by this state; or b. Establish an administrative mechanism which facilitates
payment for dental care services by insureds, beneficiaries,...
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34-27B-2
Section 34-27B-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) BOARD. The Alabama State Board of Respiratory Therapy. (2) DIRECT CLINICAL SUPERVISION.
A situation where a licensed respiratory therapist or physician is available for the purpose
of communication, consultation, and assistance. (3) HEALTHCARE FACILITY. The definition shall
be the same as in Section 22-21-260. (4) MEDICALLY APPROVED PROTOCOL. A detailed plan for
taking specific diagnostic or treatment actions, or both, authorized by the treating physician
of the patient, all of which actions shall be: a. In a hospital or other inpatient health
care facility, approved by the supervising physician of the respiratory therapist or in an
outpatient treatment setting approved by the supervising physician of the respiratory therapist.
b. Except in cases of medical emergency, instituted following an evaluation of the patient
by a physician or otherwise directed by the supervising...
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22-11A-2
Section 22-11A-2 Persons responsible to report diseases; contents of report; confidential information;
person making report immune from liability. Each physician, dentist, nurse, medical examiner,
hospital administrator, nursing home administrator, laboratory director, school principal,
and day care center director shall be responsible to report cases or suspected cases of notifiable
diseases and health conditions. The report shall contain such information, and be delivered
in such a manner, as may be provided for from time to time by the rules of the State Board
of Health. All medical and statistical information and reports required by this article shall
be confidential and shall not be subject to the inspection, subpoena, or admission into evidence
in any court, except proceedings brought under this article to compel the examination, testing,
commitment or quarantine of any person or upon the written consent of the patient, or if the
patient is a minor, his parent or legal guardian....
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22-52-17
Section 22-52-17 Public facilities other than Department of Mental Health not required to perform
mental evaluations; exceptions. Notwithstanding any other language in this article, the following
limitations shall apply. No public facility other than the Department of Mental Health may
be required (as distinguished from authorized) by the probate court to perform any mental
evaluation of a person sought to be committed for use in any final commitment hearing except:
(1) In an emergency case wherein no other source or agency which is funded or mandated by
federal law, state law or both to provide such services is objectively capable of performing
such evaluation within the time limit imposed by law; or (2) In an emergency case wherein
no other source or agency operates to perform such evaluation in such emergency case, a public
hospital may be required to accept a person sought to be committed for the provision of hospital
care, if such person is admitted to the public hospital or other...
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22-52-91
Section 22-52-91 Duty of law enforcement officer, community mental health officer to take into
custody alleged mentally ill persons; detention; admission; hearing. (a) When a law enforcement
officer is confronted by circumstances and has reasonable cause for believing that a person
within the county is mentally ill and also believes that the person is likely to be of immediate
danger to self or others, the law enforcement officer shall contact a community mental health
officer. The community mental health officer shall join the law enforcement officer at the
scene and location of the person to assess conditions and determine if the person needs the
attention, specialized care, and services of a designated mental health facility. If the community
mental health officer determines from the conditions, symptoms, and behavior that the person
appears to be mentally ill and poses an immediate danger to self or others, the law enforcement
officer shall take the person into custody and,...
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22-8A-8
Section 22-8A-8 Refusal of health care provider to comply; penalties. (a) A health care provider
who refuses to comply with a living will or the directions of a duly designated proxy or a
duly appointed surrogate or who refuses to honor a portable physician DNAR order executed
in compliance with the directives of this chapter and using the form designated by the State
Board of Health pursuant to this chapter shall promptly so advise the declarant and any individual
designated to act for the declarant, shall not be liable for such refusal, but shall permit
the patient to be transferred to another health care provider. Such health care provider shall
reasonably cooperate to assist the declarant, or any individual designated to act for the
declarant, in the timely transfer of the declarant to another health care provider that will
follow the directions of the portable physician DNAR order, living will, health care proxy,
or surrogate. During the time for the transfer, all life-sustaining...
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22-8A-9
Section 22-8A-9 Withholding or withdrawal of treatment, etc., not suicide; execution of advance
directive not to affect sale, etc., of life or health insurance nor be condition for receipt
of treatment, etc.; provisions of chapter cumulative. (a) The withholding or withdrawal of
life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration from a patient
in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall not, for any purpose, constitute a
suicide and shall not constitute assisting suicide. (b) The making of an advance directive
for health care pursuant to this chapter shall not affect in any manner the sale, procurement,
or issuance of any policy of life or health insurance, nor shall it be deemed to modify the
terms of an existing policy of life or health insurance. No policy of life or health insurance
shall be legally impaired or invalidated in any manner by the withholding or withdrawal of
life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration...
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27-1-17.1
Section 27-1-17.1 Payment of providers through electronic funds transfer methods. (a) As used
in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) ACH ELECTRONIC
FUNDS TRANSFER. An electronic funds transfer through the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPPA) standard Automated Clearing House network. (2) COVERED HEALTH CARE
PROVIDER. A physician as defined in Section 34-24-50.1; a dentist as defined in Section 34-9-1;
a chiropractor as defined in Section 34-24-120; an individual engaged in the practice of optometry
as defined in Section 34-22-1; other licensed health care professionals as defined in Title
34; a hospital as defined in Section 22-21-20; and a health care facility, or other provider
who or that is accredited, licensed, or certified and who or that is performing within the
scope of that accreditation, license, or certification. (3) HEALTH INSURANCE PLAN. Any hospital
and medical expense incurred policy, health maintenance...
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33-1-5.2
Section 33-1-5.2 Life and health insurance for certain salaried officers and employees of state
docks. (a) The Alabama State Port Authority is hereby authorized to provide and establish
a plan of life and health insurance for the salaried officers and employees of Alabama state
docks who work full time for the Alabama state docks and receive their compensation on a bi-weekly
basis and also a plan of health insurance for the spouses and dependent children of such officers
and employees and to pay the costs and premiums of such life and health insurance from the
revenues of the Alabama State Port Authority. (b) Such health insurance plan may provide for
group hospitalization, surgical, medical and dental insurance against the financial costs
of hospitalization, surgical, medical and dental treatment and care, and may also include,
among other things, prescribed drugs, medicines, prosthetic appliances, hospital in-patient
and out-patient service benefits, including major medical benefits,...
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38-9-2
Section 38-9-2 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) ABUSE. The infliction of physical pain, injury, or the willful
deprivation by a caregiver or other person of services necessary to maintain mental and physical
health. (2) ADULT IN NEED OF PROTECTIVE SERVICES. A person 18 years of age or older whose
behavior indicates that he or she is mentally incapable of adequately caring for himself or
herself and his or her interests without serious consequences to himself or herself or others,
or who, because of physical or mental impairment, is unable to protect himself or herself
from abuse, neglect, exploitation, sexual abuse, or emotional abuse by others, and who has
no guardian, relative, or other appropriate person able, willing, and available to assume
the kind and degree of protection and supervision required under the circumstances. (3) CAREGIVER.
An individual who has the responsibility for the care of a protected...
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