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Statutes > Virginia > Title-38-2 > Chapter-43 > 38-2-4322§ 38.2-4322. Affiliation period.
A. A health maintenance organization which offers health insurance coveragein connection with a group health plan or group health insurance coverage andwhich does not impose any preexisting condition exclusion allowed under §38.2-3432.3, with respect to any particular coverage option may impose anaffiliation period for such coverage option, but only if:
1. Such period is applied uniformly without regard to any healthstatus-related factors; and
2. Such period does not exceed two months (or three months in the case of alate enrollee).
B. An affiliation period as described in subsection A shall begin on theenrollment date.
C. An affiliation period under a plan shall run concurrently with any waitingperiod under the plan.
D. Defined terms as set forth in § 38.2-3431 which are used in this chaptershall have the same meaning here that they have in Chapter 34.
(1997, cc. 807, 913.)
