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22-8B-5
Section 22-8B-5 Liability for damages; wrongful death action; suspension or revocation of license.
(a) Any person, physician, or health care provider who deliberately violates this chapter
by aiding in dying shall be liable for damages. (b) If any person deliberately aids in dying
in violation of this chapter that results in death, the personal representative or
administrator of the estate of the decedent may bring an appropriate action for wrongful death.
(c) Any physician or other health care provider who deliberately aids in dying in violation
of this chapter shall be considered to have engaged in unprofessional conduct for which his
or her license to provide health care services in the state shall be suspended or revoked
by the appropriate licensing board. (Act 2017-231, §5.)...
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22-8B-3
employee, researcher, medical or nursing school faculty member, student, or employee, counselor,
social worker, or any professional, paraprofessional, or any other person who furnishes or
assists in the furnishing of health care services. (5) LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT. Any medical
treatment, procedure, or intervention that, in the judgment of the attending physician, when
applied to the patient, would serve only to prolong the dying process where the patient has
a terminal illness or injury, or would serve only to maintain the patient in a condition
of permanent unconsciousness. These procedures include, but are not limited to, assisted ventilation,
cardiopulmonary resuscitation, renal dialysis, surgical procedures, blood transfusions, and
the administration of drugs and antibiotics. Life-sustaining treatment does not include the
administration of medication or the performance of any medical treatment where, in the opinion
of the attending physician, the medication or treatment...
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22-8A-3
by the law of this state to administer or provide health care in the ordinary course of business
or in the practice of a profession. (9) HEALTH CARE PROXY. Any person designated to act on
behalf of an individual pursuant to Section 22-8A-4. (10) LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT. Any medical
treatment, procedure, or intervention that, in the judgment of the attending physician, when
applied to the patient, would serve only to prolong the dying process where the patient has
a terminal illness or injury, or would serve only to maintain the patient in a condition
of permanent unconsciousness. These procedures shall include, but are not limited to, assisted
ventilation, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, renal dialysis, surgical procedures, blood transfusions,
and the administration of drugs and antibiotics. Life-sustaining treatment shall not include
the administration of medication or the performance of any medical treatment where, in the
opinion of the attending physician, the medication or...
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25-5-77
shall pay an amount not to exceed the prevailing rate or maximum schedule of fees as established
herein of reasonably necessary medical and surgical treatment and attention, physical rehabilitation,
medicine, medical and surgical supplies, crutches, artificial members, and other apparatus
as the result of an accident arising out of and in the course of the employment, as may be
obtained by the injured employee or, in case of death, obtained during the period occurring
between the time of the injury and the employee's death therefrom. If the employee
is dissatisfied with the initial treating physician selected by the employer and if further
treatment is required, the employee may so advise the employer, and the employee shall be
entitled to select a second physician from a panel or list of four physicians selected by
the employer. If surgery is required and if the employee is dissatisfied with the designated
surgeon, he or she may so advise the employer, and the employee shall be...
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22-8B-4
Section 22-8B-4 Prohibited activity. (a) Any person who deliberately assists another person
to commit suicide or provides aid in dying is guilty of a Class C felony. (b) Any physician
or health care provider who prescribes any drug, compound, or substance to a patient deliberately
to aid in dying or assists or performs any medical procedure deliberately to aid in dying
is guilty of a Class C felony. (Act 2017-231, §4.)...
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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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22-8B-6
Section 22-8B-6 Construction of chapter. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit
a physician or health care provider from doing any of the following: (1) Participating in
the execution of a person sentenced by a court to death by any means recognized by Alabama
law. (2) Following a patient's wishes or health care proxy's instructions to withhold or withdraw
life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutritional hydration. (3) Prescribing
and administering palliative care or pain medication treatment options intended to relieve
pain while the illness or condition of the patient follows its natural course. (4) Following
the wishes or instructions of an individual which are made in compliance with Chapter 8A.
(Act 2017-231, §6.)...
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22-11C-12
of Alabama, or its political subdivisions, or any individual arising out of any acts or omissions
which occurred under the provisions of this chapter, if the state, political subdivisions,
or individual is in compliance with this chapter. (b) No person shall have any claim or cause
of action against any person, or the employer or employee of any person, who participates
in good faith in the reporting or receiving, or both, of head or spinal cord registry data
or data for head or spinal cord injury morbidity or mortality studies in accordance
with this chapter. (c) No license of a health care facility or health care provider may be
denied, suspended, or revoked for the good faith disclosure of confidential or privileged
information in the reporting of head or spinal cord injury registry data or data for
head or spinal cord injury morbidity or mortality studies in accordance with this chapter.
(d) No license of a health care facility or health care provider may be denied, suspended,
or...
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22-8A-8
(c) Any person who willfully conceals, cancels, defaces, obliterates, or damages the portable
physician DNAR order or advance directive for health care of another without the declarant's
consent or who falsifies or forges a revocation of the advance directive for health care of
another shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. (d) Any person who falsifies or forges the
portable physician DNAR order or advance directive for health care of another, or willfully
conceals or withholds personal knowledge of the revocation of a portable physician
DNAR order or advance directive for health care, with the intent to cause a withholding or
withdrawal of resuscitative measures or life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided
nutrition and hydration contrary to the wishes of the declarant, and thereby, because of such
act, directly causes life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration
to be withheld or withdrawn and death to be hastened, shall be guilty...
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27-1-22
Section 27-1-22 Uniform prescription drug information card or technology. (a) Every health
benefit plan that provides coverage for prescription drugs or devices, or administers a plan,
including, but not limited to, third party administrators for self-insured plans and state
administered plans, excluding the Alabama Medicaid Program, shall issue to its insureds a
card or other technology containing prescription drug information. The uniform prescription
drug information card or technology shall be in the format approved by the National Council
for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) and shall include all of the required fields and conform
to the most recent pharmacy ID card or technology implementation guide produced by NCPDP or
conform to a national format acceptable to the Commissioner of Insurance. If a health care
plan includes a conditional or situational field, it shall conform to the most recent pharmacy
information card or technology implementation guide by the NCPDP or conform...
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