                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REQUIREMENTS FOR OBSTETRICAL CARE (§ 38.2-3407.16)

A. Each (i) 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, (ii) corporation providing individual or
group accident and sickness subscription contracts, and (iii) health maintenance
organization providing a health care plan for health care services, whose
policies, contracts, or plans, including any certificate or evidence of coverage
issued in connection with such policies, contracts or plans, include coverage
for obstetrical services as an inpatient in a general hospital or obstetrical
services by a physician shall provide such benefits with durational limits,
deductibles, coinsurance factors, and copayments that are no less favorable than
for physical illness generally.

B. The requirements of this section shall apply to all insurance policies,
contracts, and plans delivered, issued for delivery, reissued, renewed, or
extended or at any time when any term of any such policy, contract, or plan is
changed or any premium adjustment is made, on and after the effective date of
this section. The provisions of this section shall not apply to short-term
travel, accident only, or limited or specified disease policies or contracts,
nor to 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.

HISTORY: 1999, c. 923; 2014, c. 814.