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1998 SESSION

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HB 542 Health insurance; minimum stay for breast cancer surgery.

Introduced by: Phillip A. Hamilton | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Accident and sickness insurance; minimum hospital stays for patients following mastectomy and for lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer. Requires the state employee health insurance plan, the Virginia Medicaid plan, and health insurers, health maintenance organizations and corporations providing accident and sickness subscription contracts to provide coverage for at least a 48-hour hospital stay following a radical or modified radical mastectomy and not less than 24 hours of inpatient care following a total mastectomy or a partial mastectomy with lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer. Notwithstanding these requirements, the attending physician and the patient can determine that a shorter stay in the hospital is appropriate. The bill's provisions are applicable to policies, plans, and contracts delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on and after July 1, 1998. They are not applicable to short-term travel, accident only, limited or specified disease policies, Medicare or other state or federal governmental plans, or to short-term nonrenewable policies of not more than six months' duration.


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