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NRS 695G.055 - “Medically necessary” defined.

NV Rev Stat § 695G.055 (2019) (N/A)
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“Medically necessary” means health care services or products that a prudent physician would provide to a patient to prevent, diagnose or treat an illness, injury or disease, or any symptoms thereof, that are necessary and:

1. Provided in accordance with generally accepted standards of medical practice;

2. Clinically appropriate with regard to type, frequency, extent, location and duration;

3. Not primarily provided for the convenience of the patient, physician or other provider of health care;

4. Required to improve a specific health condition of an insured or to preserve the existing state of health of the insured; and

5. The most clinically appropriate level of health care that may be safely provided to the insured.

(Added to NRS by 2003, 779)

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