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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78815</law_id><section_number>38.2-3449</section_number><catch_line>Prohibiting discrimination based on health status</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-3454</reference><reference>38.2-3521.1</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="6">Federal Market Reforms</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Notwithstanding any provision of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Re-underwriting individual under existing group or individual accident and sickness insurance policy prohibited; exceptions" href="/38.2-508.5/">38.2-508.5</a>, <a class="law" title="Application of article; definitions" href="/38.2-3431/">38.2-3431</a>, <a class="law" title="Limitation on preexisting condition exclusion period" href="/38.2-3432.3/">38.2-3432.3</a>, <a class="law" title="Group accident and sickness insurance definitions" href="/38.2-3521.1/">38.2-3521.1</a>, <a class="law" title="Limits of group accident and sickness insurance" href="/38.2-3522.1/">38.2-3522.1</a>, <a class="law" title="Employee wellness program" href="/38.2-3540.2/">38.2-3540.2</a>, <a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/38.2-3551/">38.2-3551</a>, <a class="law" title="Organization of domestic society on or after October 1, 1986" href="/38.2-4109/">38.2-4109</a>, or any other section of this title to the contrary, a health carrier offering a health benefit plan providing individual or group health <span class="dictionary">insurance</span> coverage shall not establish rules for eligibility, including continued eligibility, of any covered <span class="dictionary">person</span> to enroll under the terms of coverage based on any health status-related factor in relation to the covered <span class="dictionary">person</span>. <a id="paragraph-282334" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3449/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> A health carrier shall not require any covered <span class="dictionary">person</span> as a condition of enrollment or continued enrollment under a health benefit plan to pay a premium or contribution that is greater than such premium or contribution for a similarly situated covered <span class="dictionary">person</span> enrolled in the plan on the basis of any health status-related factor in relation to the covered <span class="dictionary">person</span>. <a id="paragraph-282335" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-3449/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2013, c. 751.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
