                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REQUIREMENT FOR PRESCRIPTION DRUG COVERAGE (§ 38.2-3407.9:02)

No (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, or (iii) health maintenance
organization providing a health care plan for health care services, whose
policy, contract or plan, including any certificate or evidence of coverage
issued in connection with such policy, contract 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.

HISTORY: 2000, c. 508.