CODE OF VIRGINIA

CERTAIN EMPLOYEES OF TEACHING HOSPITALS (§ 51.1-502.1)

Any teaching hospital affiliated with an institution of higher education, other
than the University of Virginia Medical Center, may purchase group life,
accidental death and dismemberment, and disability insurance policies covering
in whole or in part its employees who are health care providers, as determined
by the Department of Human Resource Management pursuant to § 2.2-2905. In
addition, any such teaching hospital may increase the coverage under such
policies to make available to each active insured employee optional life,
accidental death and dismemberment insurance as provided in § 51.1-512. All
health care providers employed by such teaching hospital on or after July 1,
1992, shall be covered by the policies purchased by the teaching hospital as
soon as such policies become effective and may not elect to be covered by the
Board’s group insurance program under § 51.1-501. Nor shall they be
required to present at their own expense evidence of insurability satisfactory
to an insurance company upon changing from one form of coverage to another
provided by this chapter. No other section of this chapter shall apply to
insurance coverage offered by a teaching hospital to which this section applies,
except §§ 51.1-510 and 51.1-511.Notwithstanding the definition of “state
employee” contained in § 51.1-124.3, a health care provider, as
determined in accordance with subdivisions 18 and 19 of § 2.2-2905, may be
enrolled in a health care plan other than that provided for in § 2.2-2818, at
the election of a teaching hospital to which this section applies, and subject
to the review and approval of the Secretary of Education.

HISTORY: 1992, c. 417; 1996, cc. 933, 995; 2000, cc. 66, 657.