1.  If the Governor or the Legislature proclaims the existence of a state of emergency or issues a declaration of disaster pursuant to NRS 414.070, a health maintenance organization that has issued a health care plan which provides coverage for prescription drugs shall, notwithstanding any provision of the health care plan to the contrary:

Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 695C.16945

  • Enrollee: means a natural person who has been voluntarily enrolled in a health care plan. 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 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

(a) Waive any provision of the health care plan restricting the time within which an enrollee may refill a covered prescription if the enrollee:

(1) Has not exceeded the number of refills authorized by the prescribing practitioner;

(2) Resides in the area for which the emergency or disaster has been declared; and

(3) Requests the refill not later than the end of the state of emergency or disaster or 30 days after the issuance of the proclamation or declaration, whichever is later; and

(b) Authorize payment for, and may apply a copayment, coinsurance or deductible to, a supply of a covered prescription drug for up to 30 days for an enrollee who requests a refill pursuant to paragraph (a).

2.  The Commissioner may extend the time periods prescribed by subsection 1 in increments of 15 or 30 days as he or she determines to be necessary.

3.  As used in this section, ‘practitioner’ has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 639.0125.

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