Practitioner information provided to patients
Va. Code Ann. § 54.1-2910.01
in effectUpon request by a patient, doctors of medicine, osteopathy, and podiatry shall inform the patient about the following:
1. Procedures to access information on the doctor compiled by the Board of Medicine pursuant to § 54.1-2910.1 ;
2. If the patient is not covered by a health insurance plan that the doctor accepts or a managed care health insurance plan in which the doctor participates, the patient may be subject to the doctor's full charge which may be greater than the health plan's allowable charge; and
3. For purposes of § 38.2-3463 , licensees of the Board of Medicine or their designee shall provide a description of the elective procedure or test, or the applicable standard procedural terminology or medical codes used by the American Medical Association, sufficient to allow a patient to compare care options if the patient is being referred for an elective procedure or test.
2005, c. 468 ; 2019, cc. 666 , 684 .
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