This text of Nevada § 695B.185 (Group contract which offers difference of payment between preferred providers of health care and providers who are not preferred: Limitations on deductibles and copayments; circumstances in which service is deemed to be provided by preferred provider; processing of claims of providers who are not preferred) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Nevada primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
A group contract for hospital, medical or dental services which offers a difference of payment between preferred providers of health care and providers of health care who are not preferred:
1.May not require a deductible of more than $600 difference per admission to a facility for inpatient treatment which is not a preferred provider of health care.
2.May not require a deductible of more than $500 difference per treatment, other than inpatient treatment at a hospital, by a provider which is not preferred.
3.May not require an insured, another insurer who issues policies of group health insurance, a nonprofit medical service corporation or a health maintenance organization to pay any amount in excess of the deductible or coinsurance due from the insured based on the rates agreed upon wit
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A group contract for hospital, medical or dental services which offers a difference of payment between preferred providers of health care and providers of health care who are not preferred:
1. May not require a deductible of more than $600 difference per admission to a facility for inpatient treatment which is not a preferred provider of health care.
2. May not require a deductible of more than $500 difference per treatment, other than inpatient treatment at a hospital, by a provider which is not preferred.
3. May not require an insured, another insurer who issues policies of group health insurance, a nonprofit medical service corporation or a health maintenance organization to pay any amount in excess of the deductible or coinsurance due from the insured based on the rates agreed upon with a provider.
4. May not provide for a difference in percentage rates of payment for coinsurance of more than 30 percentage points between the copayment required to be paid by the insured to a preferred provider of health care and the copayment required to be paid by the insured to a provider of health care who is not preferred.
5. Must require that the deductible and payment for coinsurance paid by the insured to a preferred provider of health care be applied to the negotiated reduced rates of that provider.
6. Must provide that if there is a particular service which a preferred provider of health care does not provide and the provider of health care who is treating the insured determines that the use of the service is necessary for the health of the insured, the service shall be deemed to be provided by the preferred provider of health care.
7. Must require the corporation to process a claim of a provider of health care who is not preferred not later than 30 working days after the date on which proof of the claim is received.