38.2-4200 - Applicability of chapter.
§ 38.2-4200. Applicability of chapter.
A. Except as otherwise provided by law, no plan shall be organized, conductedor offered in this Commonwealth other than in the manner set forth in thischapter.
B. Nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit any physician (i) as anindividual, (ii) in partnership with other physicians, or (iii) as part of aprofessional corporation of physicians, from entering into agreementsdirectly with his own patients, or with a parent, guardian, conservator,spouse or other family member acting in a patient's behalf, involving paymentfor professional services to be rendered or made available in the future.
(1979, c. 721, § 38.1-813.1; 1980, c. 682; 1986, c. 562; 1997, c. 801.)