Nevada Revised Statutes Title 53. Labor and Industrial Relations § 616C.730. Policy of insurance required to include coverage for services provided through telehealth; limitations

(a) Require an employee to establish a relationship in person with a provider of health care or provide any additional consent to or reason for obtaining services through telehealth as a condition to providing the coverage described in subsection 1;

(b) Require a provider of health care to demonstrate that it is necessary to provide services to an employee through telehealth or receive any additional type of certification or license to provide services through telehealth as a condition to providing the coverage described in subsection 1;

(c) Refuse to provide the coverage described in subsection 1 because of the distant site from which a provider of health care provides services through telehealth or the originating site at which an employee receives services through telehealth; or

(d) Require covered services to be provided through telehealth as a condition to providing coverage for such services.

(a) Ensure that covered services are available to an employee through telehealth at a particular originating site;

(b) Provide coverage for a service that is not a covered service or that is not provided by a covered provider of health care; or

(c) Enter into a contract with any provider of health care or cover any service if the insurer is not otherwise required by law to do so.

(a) “Distant site” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.515.

(b) “Originating site” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.515.

(c) “Provider of health care” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 439.820.

(d) “Telehealth” means the delivery of services from a provider of health care to a patient at a different location through a synchronous interaction using information and audio-visual communication technology, not including audio-only technology, facsimile or electronic mail.