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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>56508</law_id><section_number>54.1-2910.01</section_number><catch_line>Practitioner information provided to patients</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="29">Medicine and Other Healing Arts</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Upon request by a patient, doctors of medicine, osteopathy, and podiatry shall inform the patient about the following:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Procedures to access information on the doctor compiled by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> of Medicine pursuant to &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Certain data required" href="/54.1-2910.1/">54.1-2910.1</a>; <a id="paragraph-206857" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/54.1-2910.01/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> If the patient is not covered by a health insurance plan that the doctor accepts or a managed care health insurance plan in which the doctor participates, the patient may be subject to the doctor&#x2019;s full charge which may be greater than the health plan&#x2019;s allowable charge; and <a id="paragraph-206858" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/54.1-2910.01/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> For purposes of &#xA7; <a class="law" title="Health care price transparency tools" href="/38.2-3463/">38.2-3463</a>, licensees of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> of Medicine or their designee shall provide a description of the elective procedure or test, or the applicable standard procedural terminology or medical codes used by the American Medical Association, sufficient to allow a patient to compare care options if the patient is being referred for an elective procedure or test. <a id="paragraph-206859" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/54.1-2910.01/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>2005, c. 468; 2019, cc. 666, 684.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
