1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 616C.280, every employer operating under chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS, alone or together with other employers, may make arrangements to provide accident benefits as defined in those chapters for injured employees.

2. Employers electing to make such arrangements shall notify the Administrator of the election and render a detailed statement of the arrangements made, which arrangements do not become effective until approved by the Administrator.

3. Every employer who maintains a hospital of any kind for his or her employees, or who contracts for the hospital care of injured employees, shall, on or before January 30 of each year, make a written report to the Administrator for the preceding year, which must contain a statement showing:

(a) The total amount of hospital fees collected, showing separately the amount contributed by the employees and the amount contributed by the employers;

(b) An itemized account of the expenditures, investments or other disposition of such fees; and

(c) What balance, if any, remains.

4. Every employer who provides accident benefits pursuant to this section:

(a) Shall, in accordance with regulations adopted by the Administrator, make a written report to the Division of that employer’s actual and expected annual expenditures for claims and such other information as the Division deems necessary to calculate an estimated or final annual assessment and shall, to the extent that the regulations refer to the responsibility of insurers to make such reports, be deemed to be an insurer.

(b) Shall pay the assessments collected pursuant to NRS 232.680 and 616A.430.

5. The reports required by the provisions of subsections 3 and 4 must be verified:

(a) If the employer is a natural person, by the employer;

(b) If the employer is a partnership, by one of the partners;

(c) If the employer is a corporation, by the secretary, president, general manager or other executive officer of the corporation; or

(d) If the employer has contracted with a physician or chiropractor for the hospital care of injured employees, by the physician or chiropractor.

6. No employee is required to accept the services of a physician or chiropractor provided by his or her employer, but may seek professional medical services of the employee’s choice as provided in NRS 616C.090. Expenses arising from such medical services must be paid by the employer who has elected to provide benefits, pursuant to the provisions of this section, for the employer’s injured employees.

7. Every employer who fails to notify the Administrator of such election and arrangements, or who fails to render the financial reports required, is liable for accident benefits as provided by NRS 616C.255.

[Part 58:168:1947; 1943 NCL § 2680.58] — (NRS A 1973, 602; 1975, 796; 1981, 1475; 1983, 427; 1985, 1544; 1991, 2413; 1993, 1866; 2001, 2454)