All applications, filings, and reports required under this chapter, except those which are trade secrets or privileged or confidential commercial or financial information, other than any annual financial statement that may be required under Section 27-21A-8, shall be treated as public documents. All testimony, documents, and other evidence required to be submitted to the commissioner or State Health Officer in connection with enforcement of this chapter shall be absolutely confidential and shall not be admissible in evidence in any other proceeding. The commissioner or the State Health Officer may withhold from public inspection any examination or investigation report for so long as they deem necessary to protect the person examined from unwarranted injury or to be in the public interest.
Structure Code of Alabama
Chapter 21A - Health Maintenance Organizations.
Section 27-21A-1 - Definitions.
Section 27-21A-2 - Establishment of Health Maintenance Organizations.
Section 27-21A-3 - Issuance of Certificate of Authority.
Section 27-21A-4 - Powers of Health Maintenance Organizations.
Section 27-21A-5 - Governing Body.
Section 27-21A-6 - Fiduciary Responsibilities of Directors, Officers, Employees, and Partners.
Section 27-21A-7 - Evidence of Coverage and Charges for Health Care Services.
Section 27-21A-8 - Reporting Requirements.
Section 27-21A-9 - Information to Enrollees.
Section 27-21A-10 - Complaint System.
Section 27-21A-11 - Investments.
Section 27-21A-12 - Protection Against Insolvency.
Section 27-21A-13 - Prohibited Practices.
Section 27-21A-14 - Regulation of Producers.
Section 27-21A-15 - Powers of Insurers and Health Care Service Plans.
Section 27-21A-16 - Examination.
Section 27-21A-17 - Suspension or Revocation of Certificate of Authority.
Section 27-21A-19 - Regulations.
Section 27-21A-20 - Administrative Procedures.
Section 27-21A-22 - Penalties and Enforcement.
Section 27-21A-23 - Statutory Construction and Relationship to Other Laws.
Section 27-21A-24 - Filings and Reports as Public Documents.
Section 27-21A-25 - Confidentiality of Medical Information.
Section 27-21A-26 - State Health Officer's and Commissioner's Authority to Contract.
Section 27-21A-27 - Acquisition of Control of or Merger of a Health Maintenance Organization.
Section 27-21A-29 - Existing Health Maintenance Organizations.
Section 27-21A-30 - Coordination of Benefits.
Section 27-21A-31 - Health Maintenance Organization Advisory Council.