38.2-3418.1:2 - Coverage for pap smears - Virginia Statutes

§ 38.2-3418.1:2. Coverage for pap smears.

A. Notwithstanding the provisions § 38.2-3419, each insurer proposing toissue individual or group accident and sickness insurance policies providinghospital, medical and surgical or major medical coverage on anexpense-incurred basis, each corporation providing individual or groupaccident and sickness subscription contracts and each health maintenanceorganization providing a health care plan for health care services shallprovide coverage under such policy, contract or plan delivered, issued fordelivery or renewed in this Commonwealth on and after July 1, 1996, forannual pap smears, including coverage, on and after July 1, 1999, for annualtesting performed by any FDA-approved gynecologic cytology screeningtechnologies.

B. The provisions of this section shall not apply to short-term travel,accident only, limited or specified disease policies, or to short-termnonrenewable policies of not more than six months' duration.

(1996, c. 611; 1999, c. 921.)