1. The Commissioner shall:

(a) Develop, prescribe and make available on an Internet website maintained by the Division a form letter that a health carrier must use to notify a provider of health care of the denial of his or her application to be included in the network of providers of the health carrier. The form letter must include, without limitation, a place for the health carrier to explain the reason for the denial of the application.

(b) Hold hearings to solicit public input when developing the form letter described in paragraph (a) and consider such input when developing the form letter.

2. A health carrier shall submit to the Commissioner a copy of each form letter sent to a provider of health care pursuant to subsection 1 at the same time the letter is sent to the provider of health care. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, the forms submitted pursuant to the Commissioner pursuant to this subsection and the information contained therein are confidential.

3. The Commissioner shall:

(a) Annually compile a report using aggregated data from the forms collected pursuant to subsection 2 concerning trends in the denial of applications of providers of health care to be included in the network of providers of a health carrier. The report must include, without limitation, the number of total denials, the number of denials for different types of providers of health care, the number of denials by different carriers and the reasons for such denials.

(b) Post the report on an Internet website maintained by the Division.

(c) Submit the report to the Governor and the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau for transmittal to the Legislature.

4. As used in this section, “health carrier” means an entity subject to the insurance laws and regulations of this State, or subject to the jurisdiction of the Commissioner, that contracts or offers to contract to provide, deliver, arrange for, pay for or reimburse any of the costs of health care services, including, without limitation, a sickness and accident health insurance company, a health maintenance organization, a nonprofit hospital and health service corporation or any other entity providing a plan of health insurance, health benefits or health care services.

(Added to NRS by 2019, 551)