§ 54.1-2910.01 Practitioner information provided to patients
Upon request by a patient, doctors of medicine, osteopathy, and podiatry shall inform the patient about the following:
1. Procedures to access information on the doctor compiled by the Board of Medicine pursuant to § 54.1-2910.1;
2. If the patient is not covered by a health insurance plan that the doctor accepts or a managed care health insurance plan in which the doctor participates, the patient may be subject to the doctor’s full charge which may be greater than the health plan’s allowable charge; and
3. For purposes of § 38.2-3463, licensees of the Board of Medicine or their designee shall provide a description of the elective procedure or test, or the applicable standard procedural terminology or medical codes used by the American Medical Association, sufficient to allow a patient to compare care options if the patient is being referred for an elective procedure or test.
History
This law was first created in 2005. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 468 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by “The Acts of Assembly,” a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly’s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2019, chapters 666 and 684.
2005, c. 468; 2019, cc. 666, 684.