                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

AFFILIATION PERIOD (§ 38.2-4322)

A. A health maintenance organization which offers health insurance coverage in
connection with a group health plan or group health insurance coverage and which
does not impose any preexisting condition exclusion allowed under §
38.2-3432.3, with respect to any particular coverage option may impose an
affiliation period for such coverage option, but only if:

   1. Such period is applied uniformly without regard to any health
   status-related factors; and

   2. Such period does not exceed two months (or three months in the case of a
   late enrollee).

B. An affiliation period as described in subsection A shall begin on the
enrollment date.

C. An affiliation period under a plan shall run concurrently with any waiting
period under the plan.

D. Defined terms as set forth in &#xA7; 38.2-3431 which are used in this chapter
shall have the same meaning here that they have in Chapter 34.

HISTORY: 1997, cc. 807, 913.