1. If a dentist accepts payment for the costs of dental care from a patient’s plan for dental care and the dentist provides a covered service to the patient for which reimbursement is not available because the patient has exceeded the benefit provided for the calendar year under the terms of the patient’s policy, the dentist shall charge the same fees to the patient for the covered service as the dentist would have charged the patient pursuant to the terms of the policy if the benefit provided for the calendar year under the terms of the policy had not been exceeded.
2. As used in this section:
(a) "Covered service" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 695D.227.
(b) "Dental care" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 695D.030.
(c) "Plan for dental care" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 695D.070.
(d) "Policy" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 695D.080.
(Added to NRS by 2013, 1240)