A health maintenance organization that provides health care services to recipients of Medicaid under the State Plan for Medicaid or insurance pursuant to the Children’s Health Insurance Program pursuant to a contract with the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department of Health and Human Services shall negotiate in good faith to enter into a contract with a hospital with an endorsement as a crisis stabilization center pursuant to NRS 449.0915 to include the hospital in the network of providers under contract with the health maintenance organization to provide services to recipients of Medicaid or enrollees in the Children’s Health Insurance Program, as applicable.

Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 695C.194

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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
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