{"formats":[{"name":"JSON","format":"json","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-json\/38.2-3418.6.json"},{"name":"Plain Text","format":"text","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-text\/38.2-3418.6.txt"},{"name":"XML","format":"xml","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-xml\/38.2-3418.6.xml"},{"name":"HTML","format":"html","url":"\/downloads\/2025\/code-html\/38.2-3418.6.html"}],"law_id":61674,"edition_id":1,"section_id":61674,"structure_id":14324,"section_number":"38.2-3418.6","catch_line":"Minimum hospital stay for mastectomy and certain lymph node dissection patients","history":"1998, c. 631.","full_text":"A\n\nNotwithstanding the provisions of &#xA7; 38.2-3419, each 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; each corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts; and each health maintenance organization providing a health care plan for health care services shall provide coverage providing a minimum stay in the hospital of not less than forty-eight hours for a patient following a radical or modified radical mastectomy and not less than twenty-four hours of inpatient care following a total mastectomy or a partial mastectomy with lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer. Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring the provision of inpatient coverage where the attending physician in consultation with the patient determines that a shorter period of hospital stay is appropriate. Such provision shall be included under any policy, contract or plan delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this Commonwealth on and after July 1, 1998.\n\t\t\tThe provisions of this section shall not apply to short-term travel, accident only, limited or specified disease policies, policies or contracts designed for issuance to persons eligible for coverage under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, known as Medicare, or any other similar coverage under state or federal governmental plans, or to short-term nonrenewable policies of not more than six months&#8217; duration.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":225167,"text":"Notwithstanding the provisions of &#xA7; 38.2-3419, each 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; each corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription contracts; and each health maintenance organization providing a health care plan for health care services shall provide coverage providing a minimum stay in the hospital of not less than forty-eight hours for a patient following a radical or modified radical mastectomy and not less than twenty-four hours of inpatient care following a total mastectomy or a partial mastectomy with lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer. Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring the provision of inpatient coverage where the attending physician in consultation with the patient determines that a shorter period of hospital stay is appropriate. Such provision shall be included under any policy, contract or plan delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this Commonwealth on and after July 1, 1998.\n\t\t\tThe provisions of this section shall not apply to short-term travel, accident only, limited or specified disease policies, policies or contracts designed for issuance to persons eligible for coverage under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, known as Medicare, or any other similar coverage under state or federal governmental plans, or to short-term nonrenewable policies of not more than six months&#8217; duration.","type":"section","prefixes":["A"],"prefix":"A","entire_prefix":"A","prefix_anchor":"A","level":1}},"ancestry":[{"id":14324,"edition_id":1,"name":"Mandated Benefits","identifier":"2","label":"article","depth":3,"order_by":1,"parent_id":12993,"metadata":{},"date_created":"2026-06-26 03:47:45","date_modified":"2026-06-26 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?981+ful+CHAP0631\">631<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":66144,"section_number":"38.2-3419","catch_line":"Additional mandated coverage made optional to group policy or contract holder","order_by":null,"url":"\/38.2-3419\/"}],"permalink":{"id":215305,"object_type":"law","relational_id":61674,"identifier":"38.2-3418.6","token":"38.2\/34\/2\/38.2-3418.6","url":"\/38.2-3418.6\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/38.2-3418.6\/","token":"38.2\/34\/2\/38.2-3418.6","dublin_core":{"Title":"Minimum hospital stay for mastectomy and certain lymph node dissection patients","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 38.2-3418.6","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section id=\"A\"><p><span class=\"prefix-number\">A.<\/span> Notwithstanding the provisions of &#xA7; <a class=\"law\" title=\"Additional mandated coverage made optional to group policy or contract holder\" href=\"\/38.2-3419\/\">38.2-3419<\/a>, each <span class=\"dictionary\">insurer<\/span> proposing to <span class=\"dictionary\">issue<\/span> individual or group accident and sickness <span class=\"dictionary\">insurance policies<\/span> providing hospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred basis; each corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription <span class=\"dictionary\">contracts<\/span>; and each health maintenance organization providing a health care plan for health care services shall provide coverage providing a minimum <span class=\"dictionary\">stay<\/span> in the hospital of not less than forty-eight hours for a patient following a radical or modified radical mastectomy and not less than twenty-four hours of inpatient care following a total mastectomy or a partial mastectomy with lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer. Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring the provision of inpatient coverage where the attending physician in consultation with the patient determines that a shorter period of hospital <span class=\"dictionary\">stay<\/span> is appropriate. Such provision shall be included under any policy, <span class=\"dictionary\">contract<\/span> or plan delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this Commonwealth on and after July 1, 1998.\n\t\t\tThe provisions of this section shall not apply to short-term travel, accident only, limited or specified disease policies, policies or <span class=\"dictionary\">contracts<\/span> designed for issuance to <span class=\"dictionary\">persons<\/span> eligible for coverage under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act, known as <span class=\"dictionary\">Medicare<\/span>, or any other similar coverage under <span class=\"dictionary\">state<\/span> or federal governmental plans, or to short-term nonrenewable policies of not more than six months&#8217; duration. <a id=\"paragraph-225167\" class=\"section-permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/vacode.org\/38.2-3418.6\/#A\"><i class=\"fa fa-link\"><\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":"                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nMINIMUM HOSPITAL STAY FOR MASTECTOMY AND CERTAIN LYMPH NODE DISSECTION PATIENTS\n(\u00a7 38.2-3418.6)\n\nA. Notwithstanding the provisions of &#xA7; 38.2-3419, each insurer proposing to\nissue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providing\nhospital, medical and surgical, or major medical coverage on an expense-incurred\nbasis; each corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness\nsubscription contracts; and each health maintenance organization providing a\nhealth care plan for health care services shall provide coverage providing a\nminimum stay in the hospital of not less than forty-eight hours for a patient\nfollowing a radical or modified radical mastectomy and not less than twenty-four\nhours of inpatient care following a total mastectomy or a partial mastectomy\nwith lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer. Nothing in this\nsection shall be construed as requiring the provision of inpatient coverage\nwhere the attending physician in consultation with the patient determines that a\nshorter period of hospital stay is appropriate. Such provision shall be included\nunder any policy, contract or plan delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in\nthis Commonwealth on and after July 1, 1998.\n\t\t\tThe provisions of this section shall not apply to short-term travel, accident\nonly, limited or specified disease policies, policies or contracts designed for\nissuance to persons eligible for coverage under Title XVIII of the Social\nSecurity Act, known as Medicare, or any other similar coverage under state or\nfederal governmental plans, or to short-term nonrenewable policies of not more\nthan six months&#8217; duration.\n\nHISTORY: 1998, c. 631.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}