Title 22 — Title 22

Restored; Award of Restricted Status to Pregnant Recipient Whose Eligibility Has Been Revoked. (a) Upon determination by a utilization review committee of the designated State Medicaid Agency that a Medicaid recipient has abused, defrauded, or misused the benefits of the program …

(a) The Department of Human Resources shall issue to all eligible recipients a special color picture medicaid identification card, which shall be separate from and entirely distinct from the valid color picture driver license or non-driver identification card. The Medicaid identi…

This article shall be known as the “Medicaid Revenue Use Act.” History: (Act 2002-410, p. 1031, §1.)

For purposes of this article, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) HEALTHCARE SERVICES. Any services of the type for which the Medicaid Agency may reimburse a provider. (2) PARTNERSHIP HOSPITAL PROGRAM. The Medicaid managed care program for the provision of …

Any hospital or hospital system located in the State of Alabama that receives funds from the Medicaid Agency or from a partnership hospital program shall utilize all revenues received from either source only in connection with the provision of healthcare services. Within 30 days …

To the extent any hospital or hospital system transfers, directly or indirectly, funds to the Medicaid Agency, transfers by the hospital or hospital system in any fiscal period which may be determined on an annual or other reasonable periodic basis may not exceed the amount of re…

All funds transferred by a hospital or a hospital system from any payor source directly or indirectly to the Medicaid Agency shall be used by the Medicaid Agency to defer costs incurred in connection with either the provision of healthcare services, as provided in Section 22-6-92…

At the time a hospital or hospital system transfers funds to the Medicaid Agency, or no less frequently than within 30 days after the close of the transferor hospital’s or hospital system’s fiscal year, the hospital or hospital system shall certify in writing to the Medicaid Agen…

In the event a hospital or hospital system transfers funds to the Medicaid Agency and fails to certify that the funds transferred are in compliance with the requirements of Section 22-6-93, the Medicaid Agency shall return any portion of the funds not certified to the transferor …

In the event a hospital or hospital system transfers funds to the Medicaid Agency and certifies that the funds transferred are in compliance with Section 22-6-93, but subsequently it is determined that the transfer was not in compliance, the Medicaid Agency shall return the trans…

The Commissioner of the Medicaid Agency may adopt and implement regulations as necessary to ensure compliance with this article. History: (Act 2002-410, p. 1031, §9.)

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as “The Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act.” History: (Act 2012-430, p. 1187, §1.)

(a) Health care sharing ministry means a faith-based nonprofit organization that is tax exempt under the Internal Revenue Code and which does all of the following: (1) Limits its participants to those who are of a similar faith. (2) Acts as a facilitator among participants who ha…

A health care sharing ministry shall not be considered to be engaging in the business of insurance pursuant to Title 27, for purposes of this chapter. History: (Act 2012-430, p. 1187, §3.)

The State Board of Health is hereby authorized to charge and collect a reasonable fee or charge for services rendered by salaried employees of the State or County Board of Health or State or County Health Department in home health service programs administered by those agencies. …

The State Board of Health shall fix a reasonable schedule of fees to be charged and collected from, or on behalf of, persons receiving home health services, and the amount of such fees shall include charges for personal services of the said employee and the expense attendant upon…

The State Board of Health, on recommendation of the county health officer, may waive all, or any part of, the payment of said fees upon a finding satisfactory to said board that the person obligated to pay is medically indigent. History: (Acts 1967, No. 374, p. 938, §3.)

Such fees when collected shall be paid into a special fund in the State Treasury to be called the Home Health Service Fund. History: (Acts 1967, No. 374, p. 938, §4.)

All of the receipts of said Home Health Service Fund are hereby appropriated annually to the State Board of Health to be allocated and expended by said board in each of those counties respectively from which said receipts were collected and for the purpose of administering and op…

The State Board of Health is authorized to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations prescribing the home health services which may be performed and other rules necessary or proper for the operation of this chapter. History: (Acts 1967, No. 374, p. 938, §6.)

(a) For the purposes of this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) DENTIST. A person licensed to practice dentistry in this state. (2) DENTIST AGREEMENT or AGREEMENT. A contract between a dentist and a patient or his or her legal representative in wh…

No consent shall be required for a licensed physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant to provide any legally authorized medical or mental health services to a person when the person is either physically unable to consent or mentally unable …

The parent or legal guardian of a minor who is at least 16 years of age and under 19 years of age may authorize medical treatment for any mental health services even if the minor has expressly refused such treatment services if the parent or legal guardian and a mental health pro…

Status of Minor Student by Institution of Education; Violations. (a) As used in this section, the terms “vaccination” and “vaccine” mean any injection intended to prevent the spread of COVID-19 or minimize the effects of COVID-19, irrespective of whether or not the injection meet…

Child; Exceptions. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), no health care provider or governmental entity may deny a parent or legal guardian access to his or her minor child’s health information when: (1) The health information is in the control of the health care provider or …

Parents have the fundamental right and duty to make decisions concerning the furnishing of health care services to their minor child, subject to the provisions of this chapter and Section 16-22-16.2. History: (Act 2025-455, §2.)

Nothing in this chapter shall limit, preclude, or prevent the provision of any health care service to a minor when the health care provider providing the service has a good faith belief that one of the following conditions exist in regard to the minor: (1) An imminent threat, as …

When a person, minor or adult, has not lived with his or her husband or wife for a period of one year or longer and when the location of said person’s husband or wife is not known by the person whose husband or wife is missing, then such person, minor or adult, may give his or he…

Any legally authorized medical, dental, health or mental health services may be rendered to minors of any age without the consent of a parent or legal guardian when, in the physician’s judgment, an attempt to secure consent would result in delay of treatment which would increase …

(a) Each of the following individuals may give effective consent to any legally authorized medical, dental, or mental health services for himself or herself, and the consent of no other individual shall be necessary: (1) An individual who is 16 years of age or older. (2) A minor …

Any minor who is married, or having been married is divorced or has borne a child may give effective consent to any legally authorized medical, dental, health or mental health services for himself or his child or for herself or her child. History: (Acts 1971, No. 2281, p. 3681, §…

(a) Any minor may give effective consent for any legally authorized medical or mental health services to: (1) Determine the presence of or treat sexually transmitted infections, drug dependency, or alcohol toxicity; (2) Determine the presence of any reportable disease; or (3) Pre…

(a) The consent of a minor who professes to be, but is not, a minor whose consent alone is effective to medical, dental, health or mental health services shall be deemed effective without the consent of the minor’s parent or legal guardian if the physician or other person relied …

Consents authorized by this chapter are cumulative to all other existing legal consents, and this chapter is not to be construed as revoking any existing legal consents to any authorized legal, dental, mental health or health service. History: (Acts 1971, No. 2281, p. 3681, §8.)

(a) Each of the following individuals may give effective consent to the donation of his or her bone marrow for the purpose of bone marrow transplantation: (1) An individual who is 16 years of age or older. (2) A minor who has graduated from high school. (3) A minor who meets any …

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Natural Death Act.” History: (Acts 1981, No. 81-772, p. 1329, §1.)

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to condone, authorize or approve mercy killing or physician assisted suicide or to permit any affirmative or deliberate act or omission to end life other than to permit the natural process of dying as provided in this chapter. History: (…

Declaratory and Injunctive Relief; Violations. (a) If no advance directive for health care has been made, or if no duly appointed health care proxy is reasonably available, or if a valid advance directive for health care fails to address a particular circumstance, subject to the …

An advance health care directive executed in another state in compliance with the law of that state or of this state is valid for purposes of this chapter, but this section does not authorize the administration, withholding, or withdrawal of health care otherwise prohibited by th…

Any declaration made prior to August 1, 2001, shall be given effect as provided in this chapter provided that: (a) Such declaration was legally effective when written; and (b) Artificially provided nutrition and hydration shall not be withdrawn pursuant to the declaration unless …

(a) A person may file and have recorded a living will in the office of the judge of probate in the county where the person resides. For the purpose of this section, the term “living will” means an advanced directive for health care as provided for in this chapter, or a similar do…

(a) The representative of a qualified minor may execute a directive with respect to the extent of medical treatment, medication, and other interventions available to provide palliative and supportive care to the qualified minor by completing and signing an Order for PPEL Care for…

(a) A task force is created to serve under the supervision of the Department of Public Health to establish the Order for PPEL Care form. The task force shall include all of the following representatives: (1) One representative of urban emergency medical services, appointed by the…

(a) An Order for Pediatric Palliative and End of Life (PPEL) Care shall only apply in the school setting if the order is included as part of a Palliative and End of Life Individual Health Plan executed pursuant to Chapter 30B of Title 16. (b) The attending physician of a qualifie…

Order. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as Simon’s Law. (b)(1) Unless an Order for Pediatric Palliative and End of Life (PPEL) Care has been executed by the representative of a qualified minor and entered into the medical record of the qualified minor by the atten…

The Legislature finds that competent adult persons have the right to control the decisions relating to the rendering of their own medical care, including, without limitation, the decision to have medical procedures, life-sustaining treatment, and artificially provided nutrition a…

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) ADULT. Any person 19 years of age or over. (2) ARTIFICIALLY PROVIDED NUTRITION AND HYDRATION. A medical treatment consisting of the ad…

(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 l…

(a) A completed DNAR order that is properly entered and received is deemed a valid order. (b) (1) The State Board of Health shall adopt by rule the form to be used for a portable DNAR order. (2) The State Board of Health and the Board of Medical Examiners may adopt rules to imple…

(a) An advance directive for health care may be revoked at any time by the declarant by any of the following methods: (1) By being obliterated, burnt, torn, or otherwise destroyed or defaced in a manner indicating intention to cancel; (2) By a written revocation of the advance di…