Health insurance, basic; HMOs to offer plans that do not include state-mandated benefits. (SB642)
Introduced By
Sen. Roscoe Reynolds (D-Martinsville)
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Description
Availability of basic health insurance. Authorizes health maintenance organizations to offer and sell to small employers group health care plans for health care services that do not include all of the state-mandated health insurance benefits. Currently, such limited coverage may be offered by health insurers and corporations providing subscription contracts. Amends § 38.2-3406.1 (“Application of requirements that policies offered by small employers include state-mandated health benefits.”), § 38.2-4319 (“(Effective until July 1, 2014) Statutory construction and relationship to other laws.”), of the Code of Virginia. View Full Text »

