Virginia § 38.2-3418.2 - Coverage of procedures involving bones and joints
Full text of Virginia Code of Virginia § 38.2-3418.2 — Coverage of procedures involving bones and joints, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 38.2-3418.2. Coverage of procedures involving bones and joints
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 that provides coverage under such policy, contract or plan for diagnostic and surgical treatment involving any bone or joint of the skeletal structure shall not, under such policy, contract or plan delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this Commonwealth on and after July 1, 1995, exclude coverage for such diagnostic and surgical treatment involving any bone or joint of the head, neck, face or jaw or impose limits that are more restrictive than limits on coverage applicable to such treatment involving any bone or joint of the skeletal structure if the treatment is required because of a medical condition or injury which prevents normal function of the joint or bone and is deemed medically necessary to attain functional capacity of the affected part.
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' duration.
1995, c. 537.
Source: official Virginia text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 38.2-3418.2 ("Coverage of procedures involving bones and joints") is part of the Code of Virginia, the codified statutory law of Virginia. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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