SECTION 38.2-3519. Minimum standards for benefits  

A. Pursuant to the authority granted in § 38.2-223 , the Commission may issue rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for benefits under each of the following categories of coverage in individual policies of accident and sickness insurance:

1. Basic hospital expense coverage;

2. Basic medical-surgical expense coverage;

3. Hospital confinement indemnity coverage;

4. Major medical expense coverage;

5. Disability income protection coverage;

6. Accident only coverage;

7. Specified disease or specified accident coverage;

8. Medicare supplement coverage; and

9. Limited benefit health coverage.

B. Nothing in this section shall preclude the issuance of any policy that combines two or more of the categories of coverage enumerated in subdivisions 1 through 6 of subsection A of this section.

C. No policy shall be delivered or issued for delivery in this Commonwealth that does not meet the prescribed minimum standards for the categories of coverage listed in subdivisions 1 through 9 of subsection A of this section or does not meet the requirements set forth in § 38.2-223 .

D. The Commission may prescribe the method of identification of policies based upon coverages provided.

1980, c. 204, § 38.1-362.14; 1986, c. 562.