The Commissioner shall issue or deny a certificate of authority to any person filing an application pursuant to NRS 695C.060 within 90 days after certification. Issuance of a certificate of authority must be granted upon payment of the fees prescribed in NRS 695C.230 if the Commissioner is satisfied that the following conditions are met:

Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 695C.090

  • Comprehensive health care services: means medical services, dentistry, drugs, psychiatric and optometric and all other care necessary for the delivery of services to the consumer. See Nevada Revised Statutes 695C.030
  • 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
  • person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039

1.  The persons responsible for the conduct of the affairs of the applicant are competent, trustworthy and possess good reputations.

2.  The Commissioner certifies, in accordance with NRS 695C.080, that the health maintenance organization‘s proposed plan of operation meets the requirements of subsection 1 of NRS 695C.080.

3.  The health care plan furnishes comprehensive health care services.

4.  The health maintenance organization is financially responsible and may reasonably be expected to meet its obligations to enrollees and prospective enrollees. In making this determination, the Commissioner may consider:

(a) The financial soundness of the health care plan’s arrangements for health care services and the schedule of charges used in connection therewith;

(b) The adequacy of working capital;

(c) Any agreement with an insurer, a government, or any other organization for insuring the payment of the cost of health care services;

(d) Any agreement with providers for the provision of health care services; and

(e) Any surety bond or deposit of cash or securities submitted in accordance with NRS 695C.270 as a guarantee that the obligations will be duly performed.

5.  The enrollees will be afforded an opportunity to participate in matters of program content pursuant to NRS 695C.110.

6.  Nothing in the proposed method of operation, as shown by the information submitted pursuant to NRS 695C.060, 695C.070 and 695C.140, or by independent investigation is contrary to the public interest.