695G.420 - Offering or paying financial incentive to provider to deny, reduce, withhold, limit or delay medically necessary services prohibited.
695G.420 Offering or paying financial incentive to provider to deny, reduce, withhold, limit or delay medically necessary services prohibited.
1. A managed care organization shall not offer or pay any type of material inducement, bonus or other financial incentive to a provider of health care to deny, reduce, withhold, limit or delay specific medically necessary health care services to an insured.
2. Nothing in this section prohibits an arrangement for payment between a managed care organization and a provider of health care that uses capitation or other financial incentives, if the arrangement is designed to provide an incentive to the provider of health care to use health care services effectively and consistently in the best interest of the health care of the insured.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 304)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 659G.260)