Each application for a certificate of authority must be verified by an officer or authorized representative of the applicant, must be in a form prescribed by the Commissioner, and must set forth or be accompanied by the following:

Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 695C.070

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Health care plan: means any arrangement whereby any person undertakes to provide, arrange for, pay for or reimburse any part of the cost of any health care services and at least part of the arrangement consists of arranging for or the provision of health care services paid for by or on behalf of the enrollee on a periodic prepaid basis. See Nevada Revised Statutes 695C.030
  • Health care services: means any services included in the furnishing to any natural person of medical or dental care or hospitalization or incident to the furnishing of such care or hospitalization, as well as the furnishing to any person of any other services for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing or healing human illness or injury. See Nevada Revised Statutes 695C.030
  • Health maintenance organization: means any person which provides or arranges for provision of a health care service or services and is responsible for the availability and accessibility of such service or services to its enrollees, which services are paid for or on behalf of the enrollees on a periodic prepaid basis without regard to the dates health services are rendered and without regard to the extent of services actually furnished to the enrollees, except that supplementing the fixed prepayments by nominal additional payments for services in accordance with regulations adopted by the Commissioner shall not be deemed to render the arrangement not to be on a prepaid basis. See Nevada Revised Statutes 695C.030
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC

1.  A copy of the basic organizational document, if any, of the applicant, and all amendments thereto;

2.  A copy of the bylaws, rules or regulations, or a similar document, if any, regulating the conduct of the internal affairs of the applicant;

3.  A list of the names, addresses and official positions of the persons who will be responsible for the conduct of the affairs of the applicant, including all members of the board of directors, board of trustees, executive committee, or other governing board or committee, the officers in the case of a corporation, and the partners or members in the case of a partnership or association;

4.  A copy of any contract made or to be made between any providers or persons listed in subsection 3 and the applicant;

5.  A statement generally describing the health maintenance organization, its health care plan or plans, the location of facilities at which health care services will be regularly available to enrollees and the type of health care personnel who will provide the health care services;

6.  A copy of the form of evidence of coverage to be issued to the enrollees;

7.  A copy of the form of the group contract, if any, which is to be issued to employers, unions, trustees or other organizations;

8.  Certified financial statements showing the applicant’s assets, liabilities and sources of financial support;

9.  The proposed method of marketing the plan, a financial plan which includes a 3-year projection of the initial operating results anticipated and the sources of working capital and any other sources of funding;

10.  A power of attorney, executed by the applicant, appointing the Commissioner and the authorized deputies of the Commissioner as the true and lawful attorney of such applicant in and for this State upon whom all lawful process in any legal action or proceeding against the health maintenance organization on a cause of action arising in this State may be served;

11.  A statement reasonably describing the geographic area to be served;

12.  A description of the procedures for resolving complaints and procedures for external reviews to be used as required under NRS 695C.260;

13.  A description of the procedures and programs to be implemented to meet the quality of health care requirements in NRS 695C.080;

14.  A description of the mechanism by which enrollees will be afforded an opportunity to participate in matters of program content under subsection 2 of NRS 695C.110; and

15.  Such other information as the Commissioner may require to make the determinations required in NRS 695C.080.