A health carrier which offers or issues a network plan shall establish a mechanism by which a participating provider of health care in the network may, in a timely manner at the time health care services are to be provided, determine whether the person to whom the health care services are to be provided is a covered person or is within a grace period for the payment of a premium during which the health carrier may hold a claim for health care services pending receipt of the payment of the premium.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 2353)