689A.615 - Certain plan, fund or program to be treated as employee welfare benefit plan which is group health plan; partnership deemed employer of each partner.

689A.615  Certain plan, fund or program to be treated as employee welfare benefit plan which is group health plan; partnership deemed employer of each partner.  For the purposes of NRS 689A.470 to 689A.740, inclusive:

      1.  Any plan, fund or program which would not be, but for section 2721(e) of the Public Health Service Act, as amended by Public Law 104-191, as that section existed on July 16, 1997, an employee welfare benefit plan and which is established or maintained by a partnership to the extent that the plan, fund or program provides medical care to current or former partners in the partnership or to their dependents, as defined under the terms of the plan, fund or program, directly or through insurance, reimbursement or otherwise, must be treated, subject to subsection 2, as an employee welfare benefit plan which is a group health plan.

      2.  In the case of a group health plan, a partnership shall be deemed to be the employer of each partner.

      (Added to NRS by 1997, 2889)