38.2-4500 - Applicability of chapter. - Virginia Statutes

§ 38.2-4500. Applicability of chapter.

A. Except as otherwise provided by law, no arrangement for furnishing prepaiddental services or prepaid optometric services shall be organized, conductedor offered in this Commonwealth other than in the manner set forth in thischapter.

B. Nothing contained in this chapter prohibits any dentist or optometristindividually, in partnership with other dentists or optometrists, or as partof a professional corporation of dentists or optometrists from entering intoagreements directly with his own patients, or with a parent, guardian,conservator, spouse or other family member acting in a patient's behalf,involving payment for professional services to be rendered or made availablein the future.

(1980, c. 682, § 38.1-894; 1986, c. 562; 1997, c. 801.)