§ 38.2-3407.9:02 Requirement for prescription drug coverage
No (i) insurer proposing to issue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing hospital, medical and surgical or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis, (ii) corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts, or (iii) health maintenance organization providing a health care plan for health care services, whose policy, contract or plan, including any certificate or evidence of coverage issued in connection with such policy, contract or plan, includes coverage for prescription drugs shall exclude coverage for any prescription drug solely on the basis of the length of time since the drug obtained FDA approval.
History
This law was first created in 2000. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 508 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.
2000, c. 508.