2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 695G - Managed Care
NRS 695G.1712 - Required provision concerning coverage for screening, genetic counseling and testing related to BRCA gene in certain circumstances. [Effective January 1, 2022.]
1. A managed care organization that issues a health care plan shall provide coverage for screening, genetic counseling and testing for harmful mutations in the BRCA gene for women under circumstances where such screening, genetic counseling or testing, as applicable, is required by NRS 457.301.
2. A managed care organization shall ensure that the benefits required by subsection 1 are made available to an insured through a provider of health care who participates in the network plan of the managed care organization.
3. A health care plan subject to the provisions of this chapter that is delivered, issued for delivery or renewed on or after January 1, 2022, has the legal effect of including the coverage required by subsection 1, and any provision of the plan that conflicts with the provisions of this section is void.
4. As used in this section:
(a) "Network plan" means a health care plan offered by a managed care organization under which the financing and delivery of medical care, including items and services paid for as medical care, are provided, in whole or in part, through a defined set of providers under contract with the managed care organization. The term does not include an arrangement for the financing of premiums.
(b) "Provider of health care" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.031.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 785, effective January 1, 2022)
