                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

COVERAGE FOR PAP SMEARS (§ 38.2-3418.1:2)

A. Notwithstanding the provisions &#xA7; 38.2-3419, each 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, each corporation providing individual or group accident and sickness
subscription contracts and each health maintenance organization providing a
health care plan for health care services shall provide coverage under such
policy, contract or plan delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this
Commonwealth on and after July 1, 1996, for annual pap smears, including
coverage, on and after July 1, 1999, for annual testing performed by any
FDA-approved gynecologic cytology screening technologies.

B. The provisions of this section shall not apply to short-term travel, accident
only, limited or specified disease policies, or to short-term nonrenewable
policies of not more than six months&#8217; duration.

HISTORY: 1996, c. 611; 1999, c. 921.