2022 Code of Alabama
Title 27 - Insurance.
Chapter 21A - Health Maintenance Organizations.
Section 27-21A-23 - Statutory Construction and Relationship to Other Laws.

Section 27-21A-23

Statutory construction and relationship to other laws.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, provisions of the insurance law and provisions of health care service plan laws shall not be applicable to any health maintenance organization granted a certificate of authority under this chapter. This provision shall not apply to an insurer or health care service plan licensed and regulated pursuant to the insurance law or the health care service plan laws of this state except with respect to its health maintenance organization activities authorized and regulated pursuant to this chapter.

(b) Solicitation of enrollees by a health maintenance organization granted a certificate of authority shall not be construed to violate any provision of law relating to solicitation or advertising by health professionals.

(c) Any health maintenance organization authorized under this chapter shall not be deemed to be practicing medicine and shall be exempt from the provisions of Section 34-24-310, et seq., relating to the practice of medicine.

(d) No person participating in the arrangements of a health maintenance organization other than the actual provider of health care services or supplies directly to enrollees and their families shall be liable for negligence, misfeasance, nonfeasance, or malpractice in connection with the furnishing of such services and supplies.

(e) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed in any way to repeal or conflict with any provision of the certificate of need law.

(f) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), a health maintenance organization shall be subject to all of the following:

(1) Section 27-1-17.

(2) Chapter 56.

(3) Chapter 54.

(4) Chapter 57.

(5) Chapter 58.

(6) Chapter 59.

(7) Rules adopted by the Commissioner of Insurance pursuant to Sections 27-7-43 and 27-7-44.

(8) Chapter 12A.

(9) Chapter 54A.

(10) Chapter 2B.

(11) Chapter 29.

(12) Chapter 62.

(13) Chapter 63.

(14) Chapter 45A.

(Acts 1986, No. 86-471, p. 854, §23; Act 2001-445, p. 573, §1; Act 2001-477, p. 640, §10; Act 2002-511, p. 1315, §1; Act 2004-502, p. 969, §8; Act 2007-389, p. 778, §5; Act 2008-502, p. 1106, §4; Act 2012-298, p. 647, §3; Act 2012-429, p. 1170, §6; Act 2014-324, p. 1151, §1; Act 2014-377, p. 1407, §7; Act 2017-337, §1; Act 2019-98, §13; Act 2021-341, §3; Act 2021-236, §2.)