51.1-502.1 - Certain employees of teaching hospitals.
§ 51.1-502.1. Certain employees of teaching hospitals.
Any teaching hospital affiliated with an institution of higher education,other than the University of Virginia Medical Center, may purchase grouplife, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability insurance policiescovering in whole or in part its employees who are health care providers, asdetermined by the Department of Human Resource Management pursuant to §2.2-2905. In addition, any such teaching hospital may increase the coverageunder such policies to make available to each active insured employeeoptional life, accidental death and dismemberment insurance as provided in §51.1-512. All health care providers employed by such teaching hospital on orafter July 1, 1992, shall be covered by the policies purchased by theteaching hospital as soon as such policies become effective and may not electto be covered by the Board's group insurance program under § 51.1-501. Norshall they be required to present at their own expense evidence ofinsurability satisfactory to an insurance company upon changing from one formof coverage to another provided by this chapter. No other section of thischapter shall apply to insurance coverage offered by a teaching hospital towhich 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 withsubdivisions 18 and 19 of § 2.2-2905, may be enrolled in a health care planother than that provided for in § 2.2-2818, at the election of a teachinghospital to which this section applies, and subject to the review andapproval of the Secretary of Education.
(1992, c. 417; 1996, cc. 933, 995; 2000, cc. 66, 657.)