Part IV. Services
14VAC5-211-160. Basic health care services.
A. A health maintenance organization that offers coverage in the large group market shall provide, or arrange for the provision of, as a minimum, basic health care services. These services shall include the following:
1. Inpatient hospital and physician services. Medically necessary hospital and physician services affording inpatient treatment to enrollees in a licensed hospital for a minimum of 90 days per contract or calendar year. Hospital services include room and board; general nursing care; special diets when medically necessary; use of operating room and related facilities; use of intensive care unit and services; x-ray, laboratory, and other diagnostic tests; drugs, medications, biologicals, anesthesia, and oxygen services; special duty nursing when medically necessary; short-term physical therapy, radiation therapy, and inhalation therapy; administration of whole blood and blood plasma; and short-term rehabilitation services. Physician services include medically necessary health care services performed, prescribed, or supervised by physicians within a hospital for registered bed patients.
2. Outpatient medical services. Medically necessary health care services performed, prescribed or supervised by physicians for enrollees, which may be provided in a nonhospital based health care facility, at a hospital, in a physician's office, or in the enrollee's home, and shall include consultation and referral services. Outpatient medical services shall also include diagnostic services, treatment services, short-term physical therapy and rehabilitation services the provision of which the health maintenance organization determines can be expected to result in the significant improvement of an enrollee's condition within a period of 90 days, laboratory services, x-ray services, and outpatient surgery.
3. Diagnostic laboratory and diagnostic and therapeutic radiologic services.
4. Preventive health services shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of § 38.2-3442 of the Code of Virginia.
5. In-area and out-of-area emergency services, including medically necessary ambulance services, available on an inpatient or an outpatient basis 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
6. Mental health and substance use disorder services shall be provided on parity with the medical and surgical benefits contained in the plan in accordance with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-343).
7. Medically necessary dental services as a result of accidental injury, regardless of the date of such injury. Contracts may require that treatment be sought within 60 days of the accident for injuries occurring on or after the effective date of coverage.
B. A health maintenance organization that offers coverage in the individual or small group market shall provide, or arrange for the provision of, as a minimum, the essential health benefits required under § 38.2-3451 of the Code of Virginia.
Statutory Authority
§§ 12.1-13 and 38.2-223 of the Code of Virginia.
Historical Notes
Derived from Virginia Register Volume 21, Issue 23, eff. July 1, 2005; amended, Virginia Register Volume 27, Issue 2, eff. January 1, 2011; Volume 31, Issue 3, eff. January 1, 2015.
14VAC5-211-165. Point-of-service benefits.
A. A health maintenance organization shall offer point-of-service benefits to its enrollees in the large group market in accordance with the provisions of § 38.2-3407.12 of the Code of Virginia.
B. If point-of-service benefits are chosen, a description of the procedure for obtaining point-of-service benefits and notification requirements before obtaining these benefits shall be included in the evidence of coverage as well as a description of the restrictions or limitations on such benefits.
Statutory Authority
§§ 12.1-13 and 38.2-223 of the Code of Virginia.
Historical Notes
Derived from Virginia Register Volume 31, Issue 3, eff. January 1, 2015.
14VAC5-211-170. Supplemental health care services.
In addition to the basic health care services required to be provided in 14VAC5-211-160, a health maintenance organization may offer to its enrollees any supplemental health care services it chooses to provide, as allowed by applicable law. These services may or may not be subject to cost sharing limitations or out-of-pocket or deductible maximums that are applicable to basic health care services.
Statutory Authority
§§ 12.1-13 and 38.2-223 of the Code of Virginia.
Historical Notes
Derived from Virginia Register Volume 21, Issue 23, eff. July 1, 2005; amended, Virginia Register Volume 31, Issue 3, eff. January 1, 2015.
14VAC5-211-180. Out-of-area services.
In addition to out-of-area emergency services required to be provided as basic health care services, a health maintenance organization may offer indemnity benefits covering out-of-area services to its enrollees. A description of the procedure for obtaining out-of-area services and notification requirements before obtaining these services shall be included in the evidence of coverage as well as a description of restrictions or limitations on out-of-area services. Except for out-of-area emergency services, a health care plan that requires the enrollee to contact the health maintenance organization before obtaining out-of-area services shall provide for telephone consultation on a 24-hour per day, seven-day per week basis.
Statutory Authority
§§ 12.1-13 and 38.2-223 of the Code of Virginia.
Historical Notes
Derived from Virginia Register Volume 21, Issue 23, eff. July 1, 2005; amended, Virginia Register Volume 27, Issue 25, eff. September 1, 2011; Volume 31, Issue 3, eff. January 1, 2015.
14VAC5-211-190. Limited health care services.
A. A health maintenance organization may offer limited health care services in either dental care or vision care services.
B. A health maintenance organization shall be reasonably assured that the enrollee has obtained pediatric oral essential health benefits from an exchange-certified stand-alone dental plan for coverage purchased in the individual or small group markets outside the health insurance exchange. A health maintenance organization shall be deemed to have obtained reasonable assurance that such pediatric oral health benefits are provided to the enrollee if:
1. At least one qualified dental plan, as defined in § 38.2-3455 of the Code of Virginia, (i) offers the minimum essential pediatric oral health benefits that are required under the ACA and (ii) is available for purchase by a subscriber or enrollee; and
2. The health maintenance organization prominently discloses, in a form approved by the commission, at the time that it offers the health benefit plan that the plan does not provide ACA-required minimum essential pediatric oral health benefits.
Statutory Authority
§§ 12.1-13 and 38.2-223 of the Code of Virginia.
Historical Notes
Derived from Virginia Register Volume 21, Issue 23, eff. July 1, 2005; amended, Virginia Register Volume 31, Issue 3, eff. January 1, 2015.
14VAC5-211-200. (Repealed.)
Historical Notes
Derived from Virginia Register Volume 21, Issue 23, eff. July 1, 2005; repealed, Virginia Register Volume 31, Issue 3, eff. January 1, 2015.