2020 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 695B - Nonprofit Corporations for Hospital, Medical and Dental Service
NRS 695B.251 - Group subscriber contracts to contain provision for conversion to individual contracts; exceptions.
1. Except as otherwise provided in the provisions of this section, NRS 689B.340 to 689B.580, inclusive, and chapter 689C of NRS relating to the portability and availability of health insurance, all group subscriber contracts delivered or issued for delivery in this state providing for hospital, surgical or major medical coverage, or any combination of these coverages, on a service basis or an expense-incurred basis, or both, must contain a provision that the employee or member is entitled to have issued to him or her a subscriber contract of health coverage when the employee or member is no longer covered by the group subscriber contract.
2. The requirement in subsection 1 does not apply to contracts providing benefits only for specific diseases or accidental injuries.
3. If an employee or member was a recipient of benefits under the coverage provided pursuant to NRS 695B.1944, the employee or member is not entitled to have issued to him or her by a replacement insurer a subscriber contract of health coverage unless the employee or member has reported for his or her normal employment for a period of 90 consecutive days after last being eligible to receive any benefits under the coverage provided pursuant to NRS 695B.1944.
(Added to NRS by 1979, 1087; A 1989, 1252; 1997, 2956; 2013, 3637)
