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Providing licensing, regulation, examination, and investigation of insurance companies, agencies and agents; Regulating securities, brokers, investment advisers and registering franchises and trademarks; Regulating Virginia's investor-owned electric, natural gas, water and sewer utilities, and member-owned electric cooperatives;
Regarding health care access and economics, the Board sets the income limitations on medically indigent patients and sets the charges to be paid for the medical care services of the Department. [6] It works with the Virginia Health Planning Board to consider issues of health care policy and financing and issues formal studies on these subject. [7]
The Virginia Department of Health oversees public health throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It has 35 local health districts. It has 35 local health districts. [ 1 ]
Each state guaranty association is governed by state law; most associations cover up to at least $300,000 for life insurance death benefits, $100,000 in cash surrender value for life insurance, $250,000 in withdrawal and cash values for annuities, and up to $500,000 in health insurance policy benefits (depending on the type of health insurance ...
The NAIC is not a regulator; while its members are the insurance commissioners (i.e., the chief insurance regulators) of each U.S. state and six territories, [1] the NAIC is a non-governmental organization that concerns itself with insurance regulatory matters but does not actually regulate. The states have not delegated their regulatory ...
Health insurance coverage is provided by several public and private sources in the United States. Analyzing these statistics is challenging due to multiple survey methods [12] and persons with multiple sources of insurance, such as those with coverage under both an employer plan and Medicaid. [1]
Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance companies are licensees, independent of the association and traditionally of each other, [16] offering insurance plans within defined regions under one or both of the association's brands. Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers offer some form of health insurance coverage in every U.S. state.
West Virginia, [19] the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time upheld a state physician licensing law. A practitioner with insufficient credentials to obtain a medical license sued West Virginia, claiming a violation of his rights under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court upheld the statute noting that, while each ...