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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59325</law_id><section_number>38.2-4500</section_number><catch_line>Applicability of chapter</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>38.2-100</reference><reference>38.2-1401</reference><reference>38.2-1445</reference><reference>38.2-1800</reference><reference>38.2-203</reference><reference>38.2-2201</reference><reference>38.2-3407.12</reference><reference>38.2-3551</reference><reference>38.2-501</reference><reference>38.2-5500</reference><reference>38.2-5501</reference><reference>38.2-5509</reference><reference>38.2-5800</reference><reference>38.2-5801</reference><reference>38.2-6100</reference><reference>8.01-27.5</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="45">Dental or Optometric Services Plans</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="A"><p><span class="prefix-number">A.</span> Except as otherwise provided by <span class="dictionary">law</span>, no arrangement for furnishing prepaid dental services or prepaid optometric services shall be organized, conducted or offered in this Commonwealth other than in the manner set forth in this chapter. <a id="paragraph-217464" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-4500/#A"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="B"><p><span class="prefix-number">B.</span> Nothing contained in this chapter prohibits any dentist or optometrist individually, in partnership with other dentists or optometrists, or as part of a professional corporation of dentists or optometrists from entering into agreements directly with his own patients, or with a parent, guardian, conservator, spouse or other family member acting in a patient&#x2019;s behalf, involving payment for professional services to be rendered or made available in the future. <a id="paragraph-217465" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/38.2-4500/#B"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1980, c. 682, &#xA7; 38.1-894; 1986, c. 562; 1997, c. 801.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
