Section 679B.Sec. 11 - NEW1. The Council shall consider the standards required pursuant to section 9 of this regulation and any other requirements of sections 2 to 18, inclusive of this regulation and may recommend additional or alternative standards for determining whether a network plan is adequate. 2. The recommendations proposed by the Council to the Commissioner: (a) Must include quantifiable metrics commonly used in the health care industry to measure the adequacy of a network plan; (b) Must include, without limitation, recommendations for standards to determine the adequacy of a network plan with regard to the number of providers of health care that: (1) Practice in a specialty or are facilities that appear on the Essential Community Providers/Network Adequacy Template issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and available at the Internet address https://www.cms.gov/CCIIO/programs-and-initiatives/health-insurance-marketplaces/qhp.html [File Link Not Available] free of charge, which is hereby adopted by reference; and(2) Are necessary to provide the coverage required by law, including, without limitation, the provisions of NRS 689A.0435, 689C.1655, 695C.1717 and 695G.1645;(c) May propose standards to determine the adequacy of a network plan with regard to types of providers of health care other than those described in paragraph (b); and(d) May, if a sufficient number of essential community providers, as defined in 45 C.F.R. § 156.235(c), are available and willing to enter into an agreement with a carrier to participate in network plans, propose requiring a network plan to include a greater number of such providers than the number of providers of health care of that type that a network plan is required to include pursuant to the standards required pursuant to section 9 of this regulation and any other requirements of sections 2 to 18, inclusive of this regulation.3. The Council must submit its recommendations to the Commissioner on or before September 15 of each year. On or before October 15 of each year, the Commissioner will determine whether to accept any of the recommendations of the Council and take any action necessary to issue any new requirements for determining the adequacy of a network plan. Any such new requirements will become effective on the second January 1 next ensuing after the adoption of the requirements.Nev. Admin. Code § 679B.Sec. 11
Added to NAC by Comm'r of Insurance by R025-17A, eff. 12/19/2017NRS 679B.130, 687B.490, as amended by section 88 of Assembly Bill No. 83, chapter 376, Statutes of Nevada 2017, at page 2355.