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2007 SESSION
078190702Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 38.2-3418.1:1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 38.2-3418.1:1. Coverage for stem cell transplants.
A. 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 offer and make available coverage under
such policy, contract or plan delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this
Commonwealth on and after January 1, 1995, for the treatment of breast cancer
by dose-intensive chemotherapy/autologous bone marrow
transplants or stem cell transplants when performed pursuant to
protocols approved by the institutional review board of any United States
medical teaching college including, but not limited to, National Cancer
Institute protocols that have been favorably reviewed and utilized by
hematologists or oncologists experienced in dose-intensive
chemotherapy/autologous bone marrow transplants or stem cell
transplants.
B. Such coverage shall not be subject to any greater copayment than that applicable to any other coverage provided by such policies, contracts or plans, and such coverage shall be subject to the same deductible as that applicable to any other coverage; however, a deductible for such coverage in an amount different than that applicable to any other coverage may also be offered and made available.
C. 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' duration.