(a) Any insurer who, on or after January 1, 1984, delivers or issues a policy of accident and sickness insurance in this state under the provisions of this article shall make available as benefits to all subscribers and members coverage for primary health care nursing services as hereinafter set forth if such services are currently being reimbursed when rendered by any other duly licensed health care practitioner. No insurer may be required to pay for duplicative health care services actually provided by both a registered professional nurse or licensed midwife and other health providers.
(b) For purposes of this section, section three-e, article sixteen and section seven-a, article twenty-four of this chapter, "primary health care nursing services" includes nursing care rendered by a nonsalaried duly licensed registered professional nurse engaged in private nursing practice or partnership with other health care providers within the lawful scope of practice as defined in section one, article seven, chapter thirty of this code, and care rendered by a licensed nurse-midwife or midwife as the occupation is defined in section one, article fifteen, chapter thirty of this code, and which care is within the scope of duties for such licensed nurse-midwife or midwife as permitted by the provisions of section seven, article fifteen of said chapter thirty.
(c) Nothing in this section may be construed to permit any registered professional nurse licensee or midwife licensee to perform professional services beyond such individual's areas of professional competence as established by education, training and experience.
Structure West Virginia Code
Article 15. Accident and Sickness Insurance
§33-15-1a. Premium Rate Increase Requests; Loss Ratio Requirement
§33-15-1b. Rates, Individual Major Medical Policies
§33-15-2. Scope and Format of Policy
§33-15-2b. Guaranteed Issue; Limitation of Coverage; Election; Denial of Coverage; Network Plans
§33-15-2c. Feasibility Study for Alternatives to Guaranteed Issue
§33-15-2d. Exceptions to Guaranteed Renewability
§33-15-2f. Certification of Creditable Coverage
§33-15-4. Required Policy Provisions
§33-15-4a. Required Policy Provisions-Mental Illness
§33-15-4b. Policies to Cover Nursing Services; Definition
§33-15-4c. Third Party Reimbursement for Mammography, Pap Smear or Human Papilloma Virus Testing
§33-15-4d. Third Party Reimbursement for Rehabilitation Services
§33-15-4e. Benefits for Mothers and Newborns
§33-15-4f. Third Party Reimbursement for Colorectal Cancer Examination and Laboratory Testing
§33-15-4g. Required Coverage for Reconstruction Surgery Following Mastectomies
§33-15-4h. Coverage for Patient Cost of Clinical Trials
§33-15-4i. Third-Party Reimbursement for Kidney Disease Screening
§33-15-4j. Required Coverage for Dental Anesthesia Services
§33-15-4l. Deductibles, Copayments and Coinsurance for Anti-Cancer Medications
§33-15-4m. Eye Drop Prescription Refills
§33-15-4n. Deductibles, Copayments and Coinsurance for Abuse-Deterrent Opioid Analgesic Drugs
§33-15-4p. Lyme Disease to Be Covered by All Health Insurance Policies
§33-15-4q. Coverage for Amino Acid-Based Formulas
§33-15-4r. Substance Use Disorder
§33-15-4s. Prior Authorization
§33-15-4t. Fairness in Cost-Sharing Calculation
§33-15-4u. Mental Health Parity
§33-15-4v. Incorporation of the Health Benefit Plan Network Access and Adequacy Act
§33-15-4w. Incorporation of the Coverage for 12-Month Refill for Contraceptive Drugs
§33-15-5. Optional Policy Provisions
§33-15-6. Inapplicable or Inconsistent Provisions
§33-15-7. Order of Certain Provisions
§33-15-8. Third Party Ownership of Policy Covering Insured
§33-15-9. Requirements of Other Jurisdictions
§33-15-10. Franchise Insurance
§33-15-12. Continuum of Care Services
§33-15-14. Policies Discriminating Among Health Care Providers
§33-15-17. Child Immunization Services Coverage
§33-15-18. Equal Treatment of State Agency
§33-15-19. Coordination of Benefits With Medicaid
§33-15-20. Individual Medical Savings Accounts; Definitions; Ownership; Trustees; Regulations
§33-15-21. Coverage of Emergency Services
§33-15-22. Assignment of Certain Benefits in Dental Care Insurance Coverage