Except as otherwise required for an expedited external review pursuant to NRS 695G.271 or 695G.275, for the purposes of NRS 695G.200 to 695G.310, inclusive, an adverse determination may be subject to an external review:
1. If a covered person exhausts all procedures set forth in the health care plan for reviewing the adverse determination within the health carrier and the health carrier fails to render a decision within the period required to render that decision set forth in the health care plan; or
2. If the health carrier allows the covered person to submit the adverse determination to the independent review organization without requiring the covered person to exhaust all procedures set forth in the health care plan for reviewing the adverse determination within the health carrier.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 780; A 2011, 3412)