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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>62074</law_id><section_number>38.2-3407.9:02</section_number><catch_line>Requirement for prescription drug coverage</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-3406.1</reference><reference>38.2-4319</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="38.2">Insurance</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="34">Provisions Relating to Accident and Sickness Insurance</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No (i) <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, (ii) corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness subscription <span class="dictionary">contracts</span>, or (iii) health maintenance organization providing a health care plan for health care services, whose policy, <span class="dictionary">contract</span> or plan, including any certificate or <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> of coverage issued in connection with such policy, <span class="dictionary">contract</span> 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.</p></section></text><history>2000, c. 508.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
